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The Battle of Portland Harbor was an incident during the American Civil War, in June 1863, in the waters off Portland, Maine.
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The 10th Maine Infantry Regiment was mustered in for two years of service at Portland, Maine, on October 4, 1861, by then-Major Seth Eastman. [1] It was mustered out on May 8, 1863, also at Portland. The regimental commander was Colonel George Lafayette Beal .
The Battle of Falmouth (also known as the Battle of Fort Loyal) (May 16–20, 1690) involved Joseph-François Hertel de la Fresnière and Baron de St Castin leading troops as well as the Wabanaki Confederacy (Mi'kmaq and Maliseet from Fort Meductic) in New Brunswick to capture and destroy Fort Loyal and the English settlement on the Falmouth neck (site of present-day Portland, Maine), then ...
Battle of Fredericksburg December 12–15. "Mud March" January 20–24, 1863. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Operations at Franklin's Crossing April 29-May 2. Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg, May 3. Salem Heights May 3–4. Banks' Ford May 4. Operations about Deep Run Ravine June 6–13. Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 2–4.
1944 - A-26 Invader crash near Portland airport was Maine's worst aircraft accident. [54] 1946 - Baxter Woods municipal forest established. [55] 1947 - Maine Turnpike connected Portland to what would become the Interstate Highway System. [56] 1950 - Population: 77,634. [8] 1953 - WCSH begins broadcasting. 1954 - WMTW begins broadcasting.
With the battle soon over, they left Washington for home on 4 July, reuniting with the rest of the regiment in Portland for their mustering out on 17 July 1863. Following the end of the war, when the promise to award medals to the volunteers was fulfilled, there was a lack of an agreeable list of those who stayed behind in Washington.
HAER No. ME-59-H, "Fort McKinley, South Fork Telephone Switchboard Building, South side of Weymouth Way, approximately 100 feet west of East Side Drive", 4 photos, 5 data pages, 2 photo caption pages HAER No. ME-59-I, " Fort McKinley, Meteorological Station, East side of Weymouth Way, approximately 225 feet south of Cove Side Drive ", 3 photos ...