Proposed return of captured battle flags. January 4, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 6, 1916
The Second Maine Regiment Left Augusta June 29th for Texas Regi mental Flag Presented by City Addresses by Mayor Viles and Hon Frank M Dut ton 15000 People 1 hrong the Streets to see the Start From the Kennebec Journal Through ianes of cheering people wav ine flags teardimmed eyes and flutter mg handkerchiefs the sections of the three long trains bearing our State of Maine soldier boys to Laredo Texas to serve their countrys flag pulled slowly from the Augusta station Thursday afternoon the first at 520 the second and third sections at intervals of 15 min UtBefore the noon hour hundreds of the 15000 people who thronged Water street and Market Square packed the windows of every block at the south of the street and dotted even the roofs and towers of surrounding buildings had begun to take their positions There was a tense un dercurrent of excitement in the whole spirit of the people who gathered to wish our boys God speed it was a different attitude than any crowd has ever mani fested in this city since the days of the SPinhou8oclocK the expectations of those who had for hours waited patient ly on the street
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Image 7 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), January 31, 1907
hn o Johnson Continues His CF Reminiscences ist I left the Rebel ram ng for the mouth of the jver the two ships the i the Wyalusing with sig they were sinking and fleet inactive with no flag ship as to what to sii1 some fifteen minutes iv the flag officer seem imself and signaled the ad a long pole attached the outboard end of irpedo to go in and at i ae ram up and for near ae rest of the fleet lay i itched the futile efforts o approach the ram 1 perhaps be proper to er theSassacus nor the in a sinking condition ops were badly cut up i and the action of the improve the situation ri sue either could not or roach tile ram near vpiode the torpedo She arge ship and was known ami did not answer her Vdd to this thedemoral of her commander French who had been the Southfield which v the ram at Plymouth ns before and who evi cotten over his fright was slow she answered mptly and when the itempt to approach she l about to ram and the wardly slink away would again get on her v While
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Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean; ordered by Jeff'n Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route
"The United States gained vast territories in the West through the Mexican War of 1846-48 and the 1846 Oregon Treaty with Great Britain. By the early 1850s, government and commercial interests were debating the possibilities of building a transcontinental railroad to the Pacific. The Army Appropriations Act of 1853 provided for the completion of railroad surveys to determine possible routes. This map, issued in 1858 by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, depicts the United States west of the Mississippi on the eve of the Civil War. California and Texas were at this time the only Western states. Western regions initially became part of the United States as military departments, which only later were organized into territories and, eventually, states. The map uses colors to show the military departments and Indian lands. Brown flags indicate military establishments. In the lower right are listed all of the important surveys and expeditions that contributed to the mapping of the West, from the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 to a survey of roads between the Sacramento and Columbia Rivers undertaken by two army officers in 1855. The routes of these expeditions are shown on the map. The map was compiled by then-Lieutenant Gouverneur K. Warren of the Army Topographical Engineers and a future Union general in the Civil War. Davis later became president of the Confederacy and a bitter adversary of President Abraham Lincoln under whose leadership, ironically, work on the transcontinental railroad began in 1862." World Digital Library.
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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), October 22, 1908
The First Maine Cavalry A Regiment With a Fighting Record The annual reunion of Co D First Maine Cavalry Veteran Association was overlooked at the time it was held in Ellsworth but it is worth recalling now in connection with the history of this famous regiment The only representa tive present for Waldo county was Abner K Gray of Prospect The meeting was held in Grand Army hail which was dec orated for the occasion with flags and cards bearing the names of 108 battles and engagements which Co D had the proud distinction of being in The First Maine Cavalry saw more fighting than any other cavalry regiment in the service The regiment was organized in the fall of 1861 It was a State regiment the com panies being appointed among the differ ent counties the larger counties being al lowed a company each while of the smaller counties two were allowed a com pany Company D was raised in Wash ington and Hancock counties The reg iment went into camp at Augusta where it spent the long severe winter of 18612 living in Sibley tents banked with snow and heated only by a little stove hung on a
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Image 8 of The Western news (Libby, Mont.), September 16, 1943
i I I j I The Libby Womans club launched i itsfall program Tuesday afternoon at the Community room which was beautifully decorated with garden flowers Presiding for the first time was the new president Miss Inez Ratekin There was an un j preccdented number of new mem1 bers present Everything was planned and car1 ried out with dispatch As the j members entered thev were pro 1 sented with the yearbook After 1 the salute to the flag the club co lect was repeated Miss Ratekin asked the members to consider for one month a collect clause the one for this month being Keep us O j God from pettiness let us be large I Has First Meeting Of New Season thought in word in deed The club was delighted to have special guest for the afternoon j a former State Federation presi in as Rosiland Russell Fred MacMurray They risked every hing to give America the jump on the Japsj dent Mrs Marion Morrow of Moore Mont Mrs Morrow is prom inent all over the state of Montana She said she had just as soon live I ill Thursday Friday Saturday Sept 16 17 18 in ii Flight
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