Check out the website, The Olden Times. It's clips of newspaper articles from a wide range of time periods and geography. Here are a few things I found of interest to Maine:

Deserter SHAW Escapes

The Daily Eastern Argus
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
July 29, 1864

Dennis Shaw, a deserter from the 17th Regulars, was surrounded by a posse of officers in his house in Bangor Monday. Dennis, however, made a dash through the crowd and though shot at several times escaped and hasn't been seen since. The Times thinks that the posse of officers ought to join Grant as Sharpshooters.

I'm guessing that the last sentence is sarcasm. But I can't say I completely understand the context.

Maine Civil War Deaths

The Daily Eastern Argus
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
July 29, 1864

The following Maine soldiers died in ambulances on their way to Douglas Hospital last Saturday:
Elijah K. Buzzell, Co. B, 19th Regimnet, Monroe; Lawerence J Rouke, Co. K, 19th, Bath. The Chronicle is requested to state that if any one knows the address of the families of these men they will confer a favor by communicating the facts to the Chaplain of the Douglas Hospital.

Major DAY Protests to War Department
29th Maine Regiment

The Daily Eastern Argus
Portland, Maine
July 30, 1864

It was not Major Carr, surgeon of the 30th Me, but Major Day of the 29th, who published the letter stating that he was "dismissed from the service, not really for accepting and mistering in a man manifestly unfit for service, (the man beign really fitted physically for service) but on account of the jealousy and spite of the surgeon in charge at New Orleans, who misrepresented the case to the War Department."

Other papers that have, like ourselves, made this error are requested to correct.