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The Kid\u27s Kid Brother -- It\u27s Great To Be A Scout (Prepared for the Boy Scouts of America by the New Haven Railroad)
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The Queen of Belgium Appealed to the Red Cross to Aid in Saving the Children
The Queen of Belgium Appealed to the Red Cross to Aid in Saving the Children date: 1917-18 illustrator/author: A.T.F. agency: American Red Cross size: 53.3 x 35.6 cmhttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/wwI_posters_redcross/1005/thumbnail.jp
p.18&19 Dexter Upper Stillwater Old Town Garland West Garlan
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p.6&7 Map of the United States of America 1874
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p.34&35 East Corinth East Exeter Corinth Exeter West Corinna
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Keep It In Safe Hands
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Roberts, Charles Wentworth
Charles W. Roberts was mustered in as Lieutenant Colonel of the 2nd Maine Infantry on May 2, 1861. He was promoted Colonel upon Col. Jamison\u27s promotion on August 29, 1861. He resigned on January 10, 1863.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_cw_cdv/1019/thumbnail.jp
Burnham, Hiram
Hiram Burnham (1814 – September 29, 1864) was an officer in the Union Army who commanded a regiment and then a brigade in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. He was killed in battle while assaulting Confederate positions near Richmond, Virginia, during the Battle of Chaffin\u27s Farm. Hiram Burnham was born in Narraguagus, later Cherryfield, Maine, in 1814. He formed and led a militia company as its captain in the Aroostook War of 1839. He subsequently worked as a lumberman and owned a sawmill. Active in local politics, he held public office as a county commissioner and a coroner. Burnham is described as a burly man with a strong voice, able to make himself heard on a battlefield. Early in the war Burnham became lieutenant colonel of the 6th Maine Infantry on July 16, 1861. He was promoted to the rank of colonel on December 12 of that year. He served with the Army of the Potomac in the Peninsula Campaign, starting out in Brig. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock\u27s brigade in a division of the IV Corps under Brig. Gen. William F. Smith. This division later became part of the VI Corps. At the Battle of Crampton\u27s Gap and the Battle of Antietam, Burnham led his regiment in the 1sthttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_cw_cdv/1007/thumbnail.jp
Carry Your Share, Buy War Bonds
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