Thurs March 9
Charles Plummer:
Abraham Lincoln: The Man,
Humorist, Story‐Teller and Poet
Abraham Lincoln was a complex man, and it has been said that “no student can begin to fathom his personality unless he recognizes Lincoln’s compulsion to tell stories.” That will be the primary focus of Charles’ presentation. Lincoln had an overwhelming inventory of anecdotes, jokes, and stories coupled with an amazing memory. Thus, he possessed the ability to pull out of his hat, so‐to‐speak, just the right one to deal with any unexpected situation that might arise. Humor was also a major factor in handling his duties and responsibilities as president and commander‐in‐chief, and he used it very effectively in persuading others to accept his views and the decisions that he made. It also served as an antidote to help him maintain his sanity and peace‐of‐mind during the trying times of the Civil War. Charles will be sharing a number of Lincoln’s jokes and stories and a few of the poems he wrote that will provide some further insights into his personality. Dr. Charles W. Plummer, Ph.D. is a native of Lisbon Falls and a graduate of Lisbon High School. He holds a B.S. Degree in Education, a Master’s Degree in Administration and Supervision, and a Doctorate in Religious Studies. He served as a naval aviator during the Korean War and is a retired elementary school principal and family counselor. A long‐time senior college instructor for both L.A. Senior College and Mid‐Coast Senior College, he has taught courses in Civil War history,
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sociology, psychology, biology of human behavior, natural law and human nature. This spring he will be teaching a course titled “Understanding Why Humans Behave the Way They Do.” He is widely known for his living‐history presentations as Joshua L. Chamberlain, Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, William T. Sherman, Oliver Otis Howard, and others. He is also scheduled to do several presentations on Civil War poetry.
News from Headquarters From the President – Dan Cunningham
The weatherman said we had 5 storms in 9 days. After snow blowing, shoveling and roof raking it felt more like 9 storms in 5 days. Unfortunately, one of those storms occurred on the day of our February meeting. On the Wednesday night before our meeting I received an email from the Curtis Memorial Library that they would be closed the next day. Between that information and the forecast, it was an easy decision to cancel our meeting. I’ve talked to Bill Attick and we will reschedule the talk from Jim Dufresne, I believe for one of our meetings next year. Let’s hope the weather cooperates and we have our March meeting with Charles Plummer. If the weather is bad, then we’ll make a decision by noon on the day of the meeting and send you an email if we’re cancelling. Of course, if the library is closed then we will not have the meeting. I received an email from the Midcoast Senior College last week and there are still openings for the Civil War course that was organized by Gardner
JLC CWRT meetings are the second Thursday of each month:
7:00 pm Morrell Room
Curtis Memorial Library
23 Pleasant St, Brunswick ME
Weather Cancellations:
Channels 6, 8, 13
If the Library closes due to a storm, the meeting will be cancelled. Members will receive an email notification of cancellation from the CWRT Secretary.
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Shaw. The name of the course is “Maine and Mainers in the Civil War.” It is an 8‐week course that starts on March 15 and runs on Wednesday mornings from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM. I hope to see you at our March meeting. In the meantime, be safe and let’s hope for an early spring!
Treasurer’s Update – Paul Lariviere
Summary report: Year‐to‐Date:
Revenue received Membership $1,635.00 Raffle $338.00 Donations $153.00 Pass the hat $0.00 Book Sales $35.00 Adopt a Speaker $315.00 Total Revenues $2,476.00
Expenses Speaker Fee $510.00 Speaker meals $296.20 Speaker hotel $115.81 Speaker mileage $0.00 Gift Certificates $280.00 Website Fee $0.00 Postage $0.00 P. O. Box $80.00 Civil War Preservation $100.00 Miscellaneous $45.15 Room Rental $0.00 Total Expenses $1,427.16
Adopt‐A‐Speaker – Dinner Host Program
In conjunction with its Adopt‐A‐Speaker setup, the JLC CWRT maintains a Dinner
Host program. With this arrangement, members who donate to the Adopt‐A‐
Speaker program at the “General” level have the opportunity to have dinner
with a visiting speaker at Richard’s Restaurant in Brunswick. Under this
program, the CWRT pays for dinner for the speaker, and the host pays for
his/her own dinner.
Year‐to‐Date:
NET Income: $1,048.84
Bank Balance, Feb 28, 2017: $3,978.26 (Note: Due to the snow storm, our March program had to be canceled.)
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See the last page of the newsletter to enroll in the Adopt‐A‐Speaker program.
Please contact Paul Lariviere (Treasurer) to make arrangements to host a specific
speaker, at least one week before the program. Below is our speaker line‐up for
the rest of 2016/17.
March 9 Charles Plummer Lincoln the Humorist, Storyteller and Poet
April 13 Matt Cost Joshua Chamberlain and the Civil War: At Every Hazard
May 11 John Cross Entering the Maelstrom: The Bowdoin Class of 1861 and the Civil War
June 8 Tom Desjardin TBA
Field Reports Historical Perspectives from our Members
154th New York Volunteer Infantry Highlights by Jay Stencil
Source: War’s Relentless Hand: Twelve Tales of Civil War Soldiers, by Mark
H. Dunkelman
Mark Dunkelman has devoted nearly 50 years to the study and history of
the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry, whose troops served with honor for
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the Union during the Civil War. In his excellent book, War’s Relentless Hand,
he traces the lives of several soldiers in the regiment. Mark was a speaker at
the Chamberlain CWRT in 2006 and 2013 where he
discussed the 154th. I took the liberty to highlight
brief excerpts from Mark’s book.
In Chapter 1, CPL Joel M. Bouton, Company C,
accidentally shot himself in the foot losing a toe. Later
on he was sadly killed in action at Gettysburg. On a
marker there his name was misspelled.
In Chapter 2, Private Milton H. Bush of Company K
struggled with going to war. He had tried to avoid
service by paying for an alternate to take his place.
This was common practice in the war for those who
could afford it. Nevertheless, Bush was not successful
as he was called up for active duty during the run‐up
to Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign. Unfortunately, he
got sick and died before the war ended. In a cruel
twist of irony, he was to have been officially replaced,
only too late, from service, anyway.
In Chapter 3, CPL Martin D. Bushnell of Company H
was wounded in the leg by a Confederate “Mini Ball”
(note the size of bullet was about .58 Caliber) during the Atlanta Campaign.
As Civil War buffs will know, the damage done by one of these bullets was
catastrophic to the soldier who was hit. There was a lady in the area named
Fannie Jackson who was a Union sympathizer. Taking a big chance, she
decided to help nurse Bushnell back to health. Unfortunately, he did not
make it, and he died shortly after the war. Fannie on the other hand lived
until 1925. (As an interesting aside, Robert Hicks’s book, The Widow of the
South, depicting the Battle of Franklin, TN, tells of a Fannie‐like character
who may have been someone with similar traits as Fannie Jackson.)
In Chapter 4, Private William F. Chittenden, Company D, volunteered for the
154th but he was sick most of the time while he served in the unit. In many
cases, sickness was almost as inevitable as the war itself. Perfectly healthy
men joined units only to end up with illnesses, which in many cases became
fatal. In the case of Chittenden, he was moved often to various hospitals. His
condition was thought to be TB, and he was eventually discharged for
medical reasons from active service. After returning home, both he and his
wife were in constant despair over his condition because in those days TB
was often fatal. Interestingly, in spite of their constant worry, they lived well
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into their 80’s, and they apparently died of old age. They also had two sons
who became successful.
Chapter 5 tells of Capt. Alanson Crosby who was captured at Gettysburg,
and force marched into VA when Lee’s Army retreated on July 5, 1863.
However, in a stroke of luck, Crosby and a Union Lt. managed to escape the
clutches of their Confederate guards. Buck naked, they cautiously swam
back across the Potomac. One can imagine the look of surprised expressions
on the faces of their fellow Union troops watching them in their birthday
suits fording the river back over to their side.
Later on in the war, Crosby was wounded and died during the Atlanta
Campaign, summer and fall 1864. His death was taken hard by his troop
mates of the 154th, as well as his family and friends.
Prior to his service, Crosby was a practicing lawyer, and had written articles
for the Freedman’s newspapers.
Chapter 6 tells of Capt. John C. Griswold, Company F. He was wounded at
the Battle of Chancellorsville, April 30 – May 5, 1863. Initially thought dead,
he managed to survive only to be taken prisoner by Confederate troops. He
ended up at the terrible Libby prison in Richmond, but was subsequently
paroled. From there he made it to Annapolis, MD where he convalesced in
Union hospital care and recovered from his wounds.
Once he recovered he continued serving the Union cause at
Lookout Mountain, TN during the Chattanooga Campaign,
Oct – Nov 1863. About this time, he learned that his wife
had taken ill and died. Not long after that he got sick and
resigned from the Army as he thought that he might die as
well. Fortunately for Griswold, he did not die. He made it
back home to Arkwright, NY where he went on to become a
prominent and well respected citizen. When he finally
passed away, he was praised as “good a man whoever
commanded a company.” Later on a US Post Office was
named in his honor.
Chapter 7 is about Private William (Bill) Hawkins, Company
B, who was captured at Gettysburg, July 1863. Bill along
with several other 154th prisoners was taken to Belle Isle
and Libby POW prisons in Richmond, VA. For some reason
they decided to turn down the opportunity of parole. A bit
later Bill was taken to the horrid POW camp at
Union soldiers pose on Lookout
Mountain after the victory at
Chattanooga, November 1863.
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Andersonville, GA, where he endured terrible hardships suffered by all
Union captives incarcerated at that prison. From there Bill was transferred
to two other Confederate prisons before being released near the end of the
war and he was taken aboard a Union ship at Savannah, GA.
Over the next 40 years, Bill never fully recovered from his POW days during
the war. He had nearly died of starvation and disease until he figured out
how to take advantage of black market trading, which had helped him
survive. At last back home, he re‐married a couple of times and had a few
kids to tell his stories to – more or less a happy ending for him.
In Chapter 8 Private Alvin Hitchcock, Company A, was in the midst of the
Battle of Lookout Mountain, TN when he began to go insane, perhaps from
the fighting, pneumonia, or family history of mental illness. Whatever the
cause, he actually thought that he was a commander or general like Joe
Hooker. He even went to Hooker’s command post to discuss battle strategy
with him.
Through Hitchcock’s chain of command, he was eventually deemed to be
insane, and was sent to the US Army Hospital for mental illness at Anacostia
near Washington, DC. Afterwards, he was discharged from service and sent
home to be admitted to the Utica, NY Mental Hospital where he died.
This story is important because it denotes the tragedy of warfare that
happened to so many forgotten soldiers on either side of the fight during
the Civil War.
Another of war’s tragic outcomes appears in Chapter 9. Private Barzilla
Merrill and his son, Alva, were serving together with Company K at the
Battle of Chancellorsville. Sadly, they both were killed in action (KIA).
Prior to Chancellorsville, Barzilla had kept up frequent correspondence with
his wife Ruba back home in NY. His letters discussed camp life, war, politics,
and opinions about his service. Many letters revealed how much he missed
Ruba and that he wished to be with her and home again. One can only
imagine how awful it was for her to learn about the fate of her husband and
son.
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Chapter 10 tells of Private Clark E. “Salty” Oyer, a former
seaman who joined the 154th Company G. “Salty”
fought at Chancellorsville, and a few months later he
was captured at Gettysburg and taken to Belle Isle
prison in Richmond, VA. He was paroled and he was able
to rejoin his unit, which teamed up with Sherman’s
Army during the Atlanta Campaign. He made it to
Savannah, GA only to be re‐captured. He was taken to
several Confederate prisons before being paroled again
near Goldsboro, NC.
It seems that “Salty” was able to survive his ordeals at
least in part because he was never seriously wounded
nor did he suffer as badly as some men in the terrible
Confederate prison conditions. He was also a clever trader in black market
goods, and he had a good sense of humor as a practical joker among his
men. Nevertheless, like many Civil War prison survivors he never completely
recovered from his ordeals, even into old age.
After returning home, he married twice, but somehow he became
peripatetic and could not settle down.
A less redeeming character is described in Chapter 11. Private Francis
“Blind” Patterson decided to desert from his 154th unit in late 1863, and he
managed to make it home to Olean, NY. From there he bounced around
upstate New York until he ended up in Elmira.
Frank got caught up in a scheme to apply for and collect a pension for
himself on the grounds that his sight was damaged while serving on active
duty. Even though his request was dubious and elicited many questions
concerning his blindness from the pensioning board, he was granted his
pension. Not only that, he even got back pay as well. Up to this point,
Frank’s pension was the largest payout in the army.
Alas, this was not the end of the story because the army began to look
further into the situation. They discovered that Frank may have had several
accomplices, who had committed fraud against the army and US
Government. Frank’s case was adjudicated in Federal court for fraud, and he
would eventually lose his pension after all.
Frank’s case was reported to have been the largest Civil War file on record,
as well as the largest pension payout, which was fully recovered.
Sherman’s soldiers tear up a railroad
outside Atlanta, Georgia, 1864.
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Chapter 12 tells of Private Oscar Wilbur, Company G. Oscar was seriously
wounded by artillery fire at Chancellorsville during Stonewall Jackson’s
brilliant flanking movement. Left wounded on the field for 10 days, Oscar
was aided by a Rebel soldier, who helped keep him alive. He was
eventually picked up by Union soldiers and transported to Washington,
DC, and admitted to the 6th Street hospital. Sadly, Oscar knew that he
would die from his wounds. However, before he died, he would meet the
famous poet Walt Whitman, who was serving as a nurse. Whitman later
wrote about Private Wilbur.
Jay Stencil is a past president and long‐time member of the JLC CWRT.
As a nurse, poet Walt Whitman met Private Oscar Wilbur at the
Washington hospital. In Memoranda During the War, Whitman
tells of reading the dying Wilbur the description of Christ’s
crucifixion and resurrection from the New Testament.
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Civil War Impact on Maine’s Shipbuilding Efforts by Noma Petroff
Shipmasters – builders and captains of ships – played an important part in
developing the local economy in Maine. In fact, Maine was the leading state
in the nation for wooden ship building from the early 1830s to the 1890s.
But, as noted by historians, “As shipping companies turned increasingly to
steam‐powered and steel vessels in the late nineteenth century, Maine
struggled to compete. By the late 1890s, Maine’s wooden shipbuilding
industry was in steep decline.” [Historical Atlas of Maine – edited by
Stephen J. Hornsby and Richard W. Judd, University of Maine Press, Orono,
2015, plate 32]
In Brunswick, the shipping industry had already declined sharply, impacted
by the Civil War. George S. Skolfield was the head of Brunswick’s leading
shipbuilding and shipping family. The changes that hit him were
representative of the challenges that hit other shipbuilding and shipping
Maine‐built, Unadilla class “ninety‐day gunboats,” like the Katahdin, were part of Admiral David
Farragut’s West Gulf Blockade Squadron, shown here capturing Forts Jackson and St. Phillips in
April 1862. Lithograph: Currier & Ives.
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firms. Skolfield had the misfortune to be both the first and the last victim of
the depredations of the Confederate navy. His ship A.B. Thompson, earned
the dubious distinction of being the first ship captured by a Confederate
raider when the CSS Lady Davis captured the A.B. Thompson on May 19,
1865. The last act of War occurred when the CSS Shenandoah captured half
a dozen Yankee whalers off the coast of Alaska, making prizes of some and
burning the rest. Skolfield’s ship, Brunswick, was the last ship to be burnt.
Apparently the Captain of the Shenandoah had not received any news about
Robert E. Lee’s activities in the east. The date was June 28, 1865. [A
Singleness of Purpose: The Skolfields and their Ships – Erminie S.
Reynolds and Kenneth R. Martin – Maine Maritime Museum – 1987,
p. 87; p. 101]
The threat of Confederate raiders caused numerous ship owners to
transfer their flags to England. After the war, certain acts of Congress
made it difficult to transfer the flag back to U.S. authority. This also
contributed to the decline of shipping. Surprisingly, in spite of
Maine’s reputation as a ship builder, the Navy commissioned very
few ships to be built in there. Those built were the Unadilla class
“ninety‐day gunboats”: Arroostook, Katahdin, Kennebec, Kineo, and
Brunswick shipmaster George Scholfield had the misfortune of building both the
first and last ship destroyed by the Confederates in the Civil War. Here, the CSS
Shenandoah burns the whale ship, Brunswick, on June 28, 1865, more than two
months after the war had actually ended.
USS Katahdin sailed with
Admiral David Farragut’s
squadron.
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Penobscot; the side paddle double enders: Agawam, Iosco, and Pontoosuc;
and one monitor: the Wassuc. [Maritime Maine and the Union Naval
Construction Effort, 1861‐1865, Dissertation, David C. Switzer, University of
Connecticut, 1971, p.238] In addition, the famous U.S.S. Kearsarge, which
demolished the CSS Alabama at Cherbourg, France, was built by the
Portsmouth Naval Yard at Kittery, Maine, in 1861.
By the War’s end, the rise of ironclad ships like the Monitor meant
the wooden ship building era in Maine was nearing its end. But within
20 years, Thomas Hyde (Bowdoin ’50) a Medal of Honor recipient (for
his performance with the 7th Maine at Antietam) founded Bath Iron
Works (1884). Eventually BIW would make defense contracts a
significant part of the Maine economy. By the War years of 1943‐44,
its peak year, BIW superseded the Civil War record of Maine’s “90‐day
gunboats,” by producing a destroyer every 17 days. Pushed by the
development of ironclads like the Monitor, the era of hand‐made craft in
ship building was coming to an end, and a new industrial era of ship building
was on the horizon.
USS Wassuc (right) was the
only monitor built in Maine.
The legendary USS Kearsarge, Christmas dream of many a schoolboy (and his
dad), was originally built at Kittery, Maine.
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One last factor contributing to the decline of the shipbuilding industry was
the rise of railroads in the U.S., which provided an efficient means of
shipping commodities. A number of Bowdoin alumni, including Thomas
Hubbard, went into the emerging railroad business, but possibly none were
more influential than Henry Varnum Poor (’38). Poor made the first
significant attempt to gather comprehensive information about the finances
and operations of U.S. railroad companies. By 1860, he had already
published his first edition of History of Railroads and Canals in the United
States. The volume was updated annually, and eventually became the basis
for Standard & Poor's Financial Services. [Wikipedia: Henry Varnum Poor,
Standard and Poors]
Joshua L. Chamberlain CWRT Book Club – Mon, Mar 20
The Round Table has sponsored a book club for many
years. All JLC CWRT members (and non‐members) are
invited to join and participate in our discussions,
debates, and treats. We invite anyone who is
interested in Civil War and other era history books and
enjoys discussing them with like‐minded individuals.
We meet the third Monday of each month at 7 PM at
People Plus, at 35 Union Street in Brunswick, unless that falls on a holiday, when
we adjust our meeting date. We have selected the following books for the
remainder of the year:
Mar 20 – Grant – Jean Edward Smith
Apr 24 – Miracle at Midway – Gordon Prange, Donald
Goldstein, Katherine Dillon
May 15 – Patriots and Rebels – John C. Bush
June 19 – Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow
All are welcome – please join us!
– Steve Garrett
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Bookshelf – A Few Good Reads
“MAGGIE!” Maggie Lindsley’s Journal: Nashville, Tennessee, 1864,
Washington, D. C., 1865. Muriel Davies Mackenzie; Southbury,
Connecticut, 1977.
I will admit to being attracted to first person accounts of our historical
events. Yes, they may not meet the criteria of unbiased reporting of history
that our academic friends sometimes argue as important, but they bring the
events to us from the human perspective. We humans see events
through our own pair of glasses colored by our language, beliefs and
yes, biases.
Maggie Lindsley, a twenty‐six year old daughter whose father left
Princeton College to become Chancellor of the University of Nashville,
Tennessee, was no different. A Unionist surrounded by supporters of
the Confederacy, she wrote of the events that dominated their lives:
living under the Confederacy, Union forces arriving and living around
them, losing livestock, fencing and food. Describing the foraging
abilities of Wilson’s Cavalry, Maggie wrote:
“Every particle of forage on our place has gone in spite of guards‐‐
our fences are all going rapidly and I shouldn’t wonder in the least if
the house itself had disappeared by tomorrow night!”
Included in this small book are letters between Maggie and family members
and friends in the north. Especially entertaining is a letter to her
Grandmother that was passed from family members and friends, eventually
being published in The New York Independent soon after the surrender of
Fort Donelson, which Maggie titled “On the Joy of seeing the American Flag
in Nashville.”
Oh yes she was biased, but her descriptions of the events are vivid and very,
very human. If you find this little book in a used book store, or available on‐
line take the time and enjoy Maggie’s description of her experiences; it will
be worth your time.
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A NOTE: I met Dan Lindsley soon after reading Maggie’s Journal. Dan is a
direct heir who knew of the journal, but had not seen it. I’m happy to share
Maggie with him. Sometimes it is a small world.
– Steve Garrett
When the Devil Came Down to Dixie: Ben Butler in New Orleans
by Chester G. Hearn. Louisiana State University Press. Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, 1997.
This author went to graduate school in New Orleans, and from
personal experience he can tell you that General Ben Butler has
never been forgotten or forgiven by the residents of New Orleans.
And it is not just Southern supporters versus the Union. New
Orleans was and is unique from any city or area north or south.
Ben Butler, from their perspective, was an affront to New Orleans.
The question to be answered is:
“Did Ben Butler understand New Orleans and do what had
to be done, or was he really only ‘Spoons’ Butler?”
Hearn has written a very readable and entertaining history to try to
answer the above question. It is about one of the most notorious ‘political
generals’ from the Civil War. Was he an effective administrator or a wily,
efficient thief. Get it and determine for yourself who was Benjamin F.
Butler, other than fellow Mainer Adelbert Ames’s father‐in‐law.
– Steve Garrett
Duty Roster JLC CWRT Membership committee thanks the following members who have
recently renewed:
* Philip & Linda Schlegel
Community Calendar — Upcoming Events and Such
Midcoast Senior College course organized by the JLC CWRT for Spring 2017 Maine and Mainers during the Civil War
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As we know, Maine and her citizens played a significant role in the Civil War. We’ll
explore two perspectives: (1) leaders from Maine in Government, Industry, the
Military, and the Arts, and (2) contributions of individual citizen‐soldiers, through
artifacts, letters and diaries. We’ll introduce participants to local resources,
including a book describing Civil War holdings at the Maine State Museum in
Augusta, and a guided tour of the Joshua Chamberlain House in Brunswick. Course
consists of eight separate presentations, several of which will be done by our own
members. For information, and registration, check the Midcoast Senior College website:
https://midcoastseniorcollege.org/ Click the link to Spring 2017 courses. Registration
begins January 16. For more information, call Gardner Shaw at 703‐472‐8618.
45th Annual Albert Reed & Thelma Walker Maritime History Symposium
Maine Maritime Museum
The symposium will be held in Long Reach Hall at the museum on Saturday, April
29, 2017. Please register online or by mail. Direct questions to Senior Curator
Nathan Lipfert at [email protected] .This year’s episode of a program that
extends back to 1973 will focus on museum curators and the job they do. One
important aspect of the job is learning things about the wonderful treasures their
museums contain, and making that knowledge accessible to the public. http://www.mainemaritimemuseum.org/events/45th‐annual‐symposium/
Index – March 2017
* Speaker 1 Charles Plummer: Abraham Lincoln: The Man, Humorist, Story‐Teller and Poet
* News from Headquarters
2 President’s Note
3 Treasurer’s Update
3 Adopt‐A‐Speaker dates – Dinner Host Program
* Field Reports
4 The 154th New York Volunteer Infantry Highlights – Jay Stencil
10 Civil War Impact on Maine’s Shipbuilding – Noma Petroff
* Around the Campfire – News from Members
13 JLC CWRT Book Club
14 Bookshelf – A Few Good Reads – Reviews:
* “MAGGIE!” Maggie Lindsley’s Journal:
* Chester G. Hearn ‐ When the Devil Came Down to Dixie: Ben Butler in New
Orleans
15 Duty Roster – Member/Donor List
15 Community Calendar
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