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The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco

(Page 11 of 17) Print Version 
Robert McArthur and comrades, ca. 1864
Robert McArthur and comrades, ca. 1864
McArthur Public Library

Soon after the surrender of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln called nationally for volunteers, requiring Maine to raise one regiment of infantry for three months of Federal service. The first company of Biddeford volunteers left in May of 1861.

By October of 1862, more than half of all able-bodied men were in the armed services.

By the end of the war, 924 men had served the Union.


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"The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in the Biddeford-Saco Area"
By Paige S. Pandora
University of Southern Maine
Department of History
Class of 2021


This exhibit was conceived, researched and written over the Spring 2021 semester for the McArthur Public Library in Biddeford, Maine.

This scholarship was supported by the University of Southern Maine Department of History's Putting History to Work program.


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