In 2021, the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation dedicated a memorial honoring the Maine men who fought at the 3rd Battle of Winchester. Military control of Winchester changed 16 times in 28 months during the Civil War. The Union victory there in September 1864 resolved control of the entire Shenandoah Valley […]

Hiram D. Sears was 20 years old when he enlisted in Co. D of the 10th Maine Infantry on October 4, 1861. A lumberman, he enrolled at Fort Kent, Maine in Aroostook County. Sears served with the 10th Maine at the battles of Cedar Mountain and Antietam, the latter fought […]

The 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment is recognized as having suffered the greatest loss of men in a single battle of any Union unit in the war: The regiment arrived on the outskirts of Petersburg on June 16, 1864, and were told to wait there to allow the Army of […]