Third Regiment Infantry

Organized at Augusta and mustered in June 4, 1861. Left State for Washington, D.C., June 5. Attached to Howard's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, McDowell's Army of Northeastern Virginia, to August, 1861. Howard's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October, 1861. Sedgwick's Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army Potomac, to July, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, to March, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps: to June, 1864.

"It is the object of the Civil War Field Fortifications Website to provide sound basic information concerning the design, construction, and use of field fortifications during the American Civil War and middle period of the nineteenth century in general. The Civil War Field Fortifications Website attempts to accomplish this object by offering its visitors four distinct categories of information: 1) a general introduction to the subject; 2) a dictionary of terms relevant to the study of the art of fortification as it was practiced during the middle period of the nineteenth century, 3) a library of period texts useful to the study of the structural characteristics of temporary and permanent fortifications along with construction techniques and methods in relation to the general conduct of war during the middle period of the ninteenth century, and, finally, 4) an expanding group of images of the modern remains of both temporary and permanent fortifications constructed during the early and middle periods of the nineteenth century in the United States.

"The fact that microbes caused more death than hostile fire is well known to the student of the American Civil War. However, much overlooked is the insect role in the transmission of disease-causing organisms. Maladies such as dysentery and malaria have an important or critical insect component and accounted for tremendous suffering during the war. Surrounded by insects such as flies, lice, and fleas, both Union and Confederate soldiers often found themselves battling more than each other. This account reveals the influence of insects on soldiering during the Civil War." Quoted from thier website.

"This page honors those men who received the Medal of Honor who are associated with the State of Maine. Associated is used because it not only lists those who were born in Maine, but in the case of some Civil War recipients that were born in another state, but served with Maine Volunteer regiments. There are many cases in which Maine-born recipients performed their heroic deeds with units from other states. The citations will have links to hometowns, burial places, and other related information - if it exists on the Web and we have located it." As quoted from this website.

"The Joshua L. Chamberlain Civil War Round Table was established in January, 1986, by a group of twelve individuals dedicated to the study of the American Civil War. Since that time, the Round Table has grown to several hundred members. We meet at 7:00pm on the second Thursday of the month, except for July and August, at the Brunswick Junior High School on Barrows Drive in Brunswick, Maine. The meetings include a lecture and question/answer discussion on wide range of topics related to conflict. We also hold a book raffle at the beginning of each meeting in order to raise funds to support our lecture series." The above quote is from their website.

Zac Tims is a Confederate reenactor in Maine who's Confederate Monument website has a variety of poems and stories related to southern heritage.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

It seemed best to bestow myself between two dead men among the many left there by earlier assaults, and to draw another crosswise for a pillow out of the trampled, blood-soaked sod, pulling the flap of his coat over my face to fend off the chilling winds, and still more chilling, the deep, many voiced moan that overspread the field.

America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south. We are one and undivided.

If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.