Author: Beattie, Donald W., Rodney M. Cole, Charles G. Waugh, editors,
Title: A Distant War Comes Home: Maine in the Civil War era.
Description: Camden, ME, Down East, (1996). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. The Civil War was one of the watershed events in U.S. history, so not surprisinglyl, we think of it in the large scale. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers fought across vast tracts of country in a conflict of unparalleled destructiveness. A number of threads of the war are linked to Maine. More men enlisted by population than from any other state yet one Maine community which had "seceded" from both state and nation, refused any of its men to fight. Maine abolitionists worked to end slavery and to aid escaped slaves yet the first American sea captain ever convicted and hanged for participating in the slave trade was from Maine.

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