Episode 02 – Show Notes

Sources, References, and Citations for “Nobody Likes You, Woodbury”

BRINGING YOU ALL THE FOOTNOTES AND SOURCES USED IN OUR SECOND EPISODE – PLUS SOME EXTRAS

Black and white portrait of a bearded man wearing a military uniform with buttons and insignia.
Captain John S. Moore of Company C of the Third Maine Infantry and the officer who court-maritaled Woodbury Hall on June 1, 1864.

SOURCES:

The Third Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry: Timeline with Historical Information, Compiled by Craig Young, 2001, https://www.thirdmaine.org/PDF/3rdMEshort-hist.pdf

Woodbury Hall, Unpublished Civil War diary.

Woodbury Hall Civil War Diary
Two pages from Woodbury Hall’s Civil War diary depicting the Battle of Gettysburg.

Maine at Gettysburg: Report of the Maine Commissioners, (Portland, Maine: The Lakeside Press, 1898).

“Latest New, Sunday Night Dispatch,” Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, Bangor, Maine, April 15, 1861.

Charles A.L. Sampson, Letter to Governor Washburn, December 10, 1861 (Courtesy of Maine State Archives).

William H. Watson, Letter to Request New Lieutenants, January 2, 1862 (courtesy of Digital Maine Archives).

William H. Watson, Letter to Governor Washburn, January 17, 1862 (courtesy of Maine State Archives).

William H. Watson, Letter Reporting on Company D, February 5, 1862 (courtesy of Maine State Archives).

John Lakin, Letter to Governor Washburn, February 2, 1862 (courtesy of Maine State Archives).

Handwritten letter discussing personnel changes in a military company, with names and notes on appointments.
Private John Lakin and company’s February 7, 1862 letter to the Governor of Maine calling Woodbury Hall “obnoxious.”

William H. Higgins, Letter to his Brother, October 3, 1861 (Courtesy of the Georgetown Historical Society).

Stephen A. Dodge, Letter from Private Stephen A. Dodge, Camp Sedgwick near Alexandria, Virginia, to his father, Sylvester Dodge, 1862 (courtesy of U.S. Library of Congress).

“Battle of Chantilly,” Wikipedia, updated 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chantilly

“Civil Wartime Letter of Bath Officer Vividly Portrays Army Life in Virginia,” The Bath Daily Times, Bath, Maine, September 29, 1936.

William Kerrigan, “The Sherfy Peach Orchard,” American Orchard Blog, July 1, 2014, https://americanorchard.wordpress.com/tag/gettysburg/.

A historical sepia-toned photograph of a man with a long beard, gazing directly at the camera.
Photograph of Joseph Sherfy, the owner of the Peach Orchard in Gettysburg. Date unknown.

Maine Adjutant General’s Reports, 1862-1866.

Third Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment Monthly Returns (courtesy of Maine State Archives).

Michael J. Varhola, Everyday Life During the Civil War: A Guide for Writers, Students, and Historians (Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer’s Digest Book, 1999).

U.S. Census Records, 1840 through 1920.

Parker McCobb Reed, History of Bath and Environs, Sagadahoc County, Maine 1607-1894 (Lakeside Printers, Portland, Maine, 1894).

Henry Owen Wilson, The Edward Clarence Plummer History of Bath Maine (Bath, Maine: Bath Bicentennial Committee, 1976).

C.A. Stevens, Berdan’s United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865 (St. Paul, Minnesota: Price McGill Company, 1892).

Portrait of a Civil War officer wearing a dark uniform with epaulets, featuring a distinctive mustache and styled hair.
U.S. General Hiram Berdan, commander of the First U.S. Volunteer Sharpshooters. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

Ralph Seigel, “Hot Lead in the Peach Orchard: Furious Fights at Gettysburg,” Hallowed Ground Magazine, October 4, 2022, https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/hot-lead-peach-orchard

Philip Katcher, The Civil War: Day By Day (New York, New York: Chartwell Books, 2007).

John Macdonald, Great Battles of the Civil War (New York, New York: Chartwell Books, 1988).

Third Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment Monthly Returns (courtesy of Maine State Archives).

James McPherson, Battle Cry Freedom: The Civil War Era (London: Oxford University Press, 2003).

Moses Lakeman, A Historical Sketch of Third Maine Regiment Since Organization at Augusta, Maine, May 1861, 1864 (courtesy of the Maine State Archives).

Woodbury Hall, Third Maine Infantry Regiment, Company D
The only known photograph of Woodbury Hall, circa 1864.

“Mount Vernon,” Evening Express, Portland, Maine, February 16, 1903.

“Woodbury Hall Obit,” Sun-Journal, Lewiston, Maine, February 12, 1903.

“Third Maine Reunion,” The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine, July 2, 1903.

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