September 21, 2024
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE

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Few men ever made a more desperate, deadly rush into history than the soldiers of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery did on June 18, 1864, at Petersburg, Va. Just past 4:30 p.m. on that hot, dusty Saturday afternoon at a point east of the city, 850 men of… Read More

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