Howdy neighbor!
Today we’re going to talk about the days of your thrice-great grandfather, and the patriotic celebration and service he would most certainly have known living here in the early 1800s. In the days before the Civil War, each year at this time all the able-bodied men of Maine would temporarily lay down the cares of their daily business, don their old, well-worn uniforms, and shouldering arms march off to do their duty as soldiers in the local Milita.
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