Hannibal Hamlin bash spotlights Lincoln’s vice president, and a town rich in 19th-century charm

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August 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.
Published
June 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.
Published
May 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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April 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.
Published
March 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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August 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.
Published
May 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.
Published
August 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.
Published
August 7, 2020

Amy Calder: Preserving a Medal of Honor veteran’s memorial

A Capitol Police officer and an American Legion chaplain team up to help raise funds to fix a Civil War veteran's gravestone at Pine Grove Cemetery in Waterville, Amy Calder writes.
Published
July 8, 2020

Maine descendant of Confederate general pushes for removal of his statue

Inspired by recent protests, Alida Snow of Brunswick has gathered her family members' signatures and requested that the statue of John Brown Gordon be removed from the Georgia State Capitol grounds.