The Maine State Archive seems to be rounding up some great material on Maine people who lived during the Civil War. The following website was indexed by Google recently and appeared in a News Alert I watch:

http://www.maine.gov/sos/arc/sesquicent/civilwarwk.shtml

I can only presume that this will be officially announced and linked to the The Maine Civil War Sesquicentennial website in the future:

http://www.maine.gov/civilwar/

Enjoy!

1st Lt. Alonzo Cushing recommended for a Medal of Honor 147 years after he stood his ground at Gettysburg.

Quoted from the article:

The West Point graduate and his men of the Battery A, 4th U.S. Artillery were defending the Union position on Cemetery Ridge against Pickett's Charge, a major Confederate thrust that could have turned the tide in the war.

Uncounted Forces: Maine Women in the Civil War is a new blog from the Falmouth Library. As they describe it:

...designed to shed light on the role women played in the American Civil War. As we approach the Sesquicentennial of the War, we will be sharing resources and information about this topic, focusing specifically on the role Maine women played during the war. 

So far they have five short profiles of women from Maine. Enjoy!

http://uncountedforces.blogspot.com/

The U.S. Naval Institute's Naval History Blog pointed me to a 1958 Navy documentary on Civil War in four parts on YouTube.

From the Governor's Office today,

I spend a great deal of time in my car everyday and rarely find anything on the radio worth listening to. So I listen to a great many podcasts and audio books. Being as cheap as I am these days, I only listen to free audio books. I'm currently listening to "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, as read by John Greenman and published at LibriVox.org.

COMPANY B, 20th MAINE, is a living history group dedicated to preserving the memory of Maine Civil War volunteers.  The original Company B was mustered into the 20th Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry, in August 1862, in time to march to Antietam with the Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac.  Company B, commanded by Walter G. Morrill, had been recruited in Piscataquis County, among the farmers of Dover, Milo, and Sebec.  At Gettysburg, Company B was sent out as skirmishers by Colonel Chamberlain to protect the regiment's exposed left flank.  Posted behind a stone wall, the Company was too far away to participate in the initial fight, but was instrumental in routing the fleeing Confederates, its sudden appearance adding to the Rebel confusion.

 If you don't believe I've been redeemed
God's gonna trouble the water
I want you to follow him on down to Jordan stream
(I said) My God's gonna trouble the water
You know chilly water is dark and cold
(I know my) God's gonna trouble the water
You know it chills my body but not my soul
(I said my) God's gonna trouble the water

--Coded Spiritual

The Chronicle Herald has a nice article today that some of you might enjoy.

The following excerpt is from the article:

In the early hours of Dec. 8, 1863, an act of piracy brought the war even closer.

I am a huge fan of The Pritzker Military Library Podcast and all that the library does. Recently, Russell S. Bonds spoke at the Library to discuss his book "Stealing the General".