Maine’s most unique Civil War monument stands at the sharp bend on Route 160 in Brownfield. The memorial is meant to represent Daniel A. Bean, who was born and raised in a house that stood on the hill the statue faces. His father, Sylvanus Bean, owned a store there, in what was then called Brownfield Center, where he served as postmaster for many years. Sylvanus was one of at least 11 children, and he spawned quite a brood of his own, so Brownfield was rife with Beans.
During the first autumn of the Civil War, Sylvanus recruited a couple of dozen Brownfield men for a company in the 11th Maine Volunteers, and that won him a commission as first lieutenant. His wife had died the year before, so he took his 15-year-old son Daniel with him to war as a private soldier. They left the state for the front in November of 1861.
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