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PublishedAugust 18, 2023
Lewiston man’s Civil War letters ‘a witness to some of our nation’s most important moments of history’
George Nye may be the only soldier who rose from private to general.
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PublishedJune 17, 2023
A Black man in Lewiston in 1912 describes life under slavery during his Virginia boyhood
In 'heart-rending scenes,' white slavers 'would sell their own children,' William Davis recalled.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2022
Hannibal Hamlin bash spotlights Lincoln’s vice president, and a town rich in 19th-century charm
A celebration Saturday in Paris Hill calls attention to the often-overlooked village where Abraham Lincoln's first vice president was born.
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PublishedJune 13, 2022
Sanctions sought against FBI over Civil War gold dig videos
The FBI has adamantly denied it found anything. The treasure hunters say the FBI has consistently stonewalled.
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PublishedMay 10, 2022
Maine Voices: World’s largest humanitarian crisis continues as we look elsewhere
The only way to end U.S. complicity in hundreds of thousands of Yemeni civilians’ deaths is for Congress to withdraw all U.S. support for the country’s civil war.
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PublishedApril 18, 2022
Judge orders FBI to produce records on Civil War gold hunt
A federal judge has ordered the FBI to speed up the release of records about the agency's search for buried Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2022
Treasure hunters: Did FBI destroy video of legendary Civil War gold?
Finders Keepers' owners, a father-son duo, spent years looking for the fabled 1863 shipment of Union gold that was supposedly lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2021
Deeds and research lead to discovery of lost historic Augusta cemetery
An abandoned city-owned cemetery found in the woods between Riverside Drive and the Kennebec River in Augusta contains graves of Civil and Revolutionary war soldiers.
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PublishedMay 30, 2021
Piecing together the life and tragic death of a Lewiston Civil War POW
A young Oxford-born soldier named Stephen L.T. Mariner died in 1864 in one of the Civil War’s most brutal prisoner-of-war camps, but much of his life remained lost to history. For Memorial Day, the Sun Journal pieced together a portrait of a young man through what was left of his legacy: a collage of records, documents and one local gravestone.
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PublishedAugust 14, 2020
Maine Voices: Kamala Harris graduated from university founded by Maine man
Union Gen. Oliver Otis Howard saw education for former slaves as the best way to ensure they could be informed voters.
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