Maine. Adjutant General

Scope and Contents From the Schedule/Series: This material primarily consists of incoming correspondence from officers of the various Maine units, addressed to either the Adjutant General of Maine or the three Governors who held office during the Civil War. While much of it deals with the mechanical routines of running a regiment, the material can give researchers a unique insight into how the volunteer regiments worked – or, in some cases, failed to work. Often beset by regimental politics as well as civilian political interest,...

Scope and Contents On June 14, 1940, Governor Lewis O. Barrows issued a proclamation requiring that anyone in Maine who is not an American citizen must immediately register. Over the next few months more than 30,000 people registered with state-wide municipal officers, who then sent the registrations to the Office of the Adjutant General, the overseer of the project. This collection contains the Maine registration forms and the related working papers of the Adjutant General’s office, specifically Captain Clyde...

Scope and Contents This material primarily consists of incoming correspondence from officers of the various Maine units, addressed to either the Adjutant General of Maine or the three Governors who held office during the Civil War. While much of it deals with the mechanical routines of running a regiment, the material can give researchers a unique insight into how the volunteer regiments worked – or, in some cases, failed to work. Often beset by regimental politics as well as civilian political interest,...