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The Bowdoin Orient, the student newspaper at Bowdoin College, has an article this week discussing Jefferson Davis' honorary degree.

Proclamation of a Day of Thanksgiving by President Abraham Lincoln, on April 10, 1862

Washington, D.C.
April 10, 1862
By the President of the United States

It has pleased Almighty God to vouchsafe signal victories to the land and naval forces engaged in suppressing an internal rebellion, and at the same time to avert from our country the dangers of foreign intervention and invasion.

It is therefore recommended to the people of the United States that at their next weekly assemblages in their accustomed places of public worship which shall occur after notice of this proclamation shall be have been received they especially acknowledge and render thanks to our Heavenly Fathers for these inestimable blessings, that they then and there implore spiritual consolation in behalf of all who have been brought into affliction by the casualties and calamities of sedition and civil war, and that they reverently invoke the divine guidance for our national counsels, to the end that they may speedily result in the restoration of peace, harmony, and unity throughout our borders and hasten the establishment of fraternal relations among all the countries of the earth.

The 4th Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry flag. This is a picture of a reproduction.

"The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System is a computerized database containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War. The initial focus of the CWSS is the Names Index Project, a project to enter names and other basic information from 6.3 million soldier records in the National Archives. The facts about the soldiers were entered from records that are indexed to many millions of other documents about Union and Confederate Civil War soldiers maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration." as copied from their website.

Thought I would pass this along incase anyone was interested.

Civil War Lecture Series this fall hosted by

Victoria Mansion and Pejepscot Historical Society!

This fall Victoria Mansion will collaborate with the Pejepscot Historical Society to feature two lectures on the Civil War by Colonel Alexander Shine, soldier and noted Civil War scholar. The first lecture, Slavery, Race, and the Causes and Results of the American Civil War will be hosted by Victoria Mansion and will be held at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church on Wednesday, September 7 at 7:00 p.m. Reception to tour the Mansion and meet Col. Shine from 5:30-6:30 will preceding the lecture (tour and reception part of lecture fee).