Endnotes, References, and Bonus Material for “The Awful Hole Left by Gustavus Pratt”
HISTORY ISN’T COMPLETE UNTIL YOU ADD THE FOOTNOTES

U.S. Civil War “Widows’ Pensions,” 1861-1910, Roll WC45740-Pratt-Gustavus-D.
U.S. Census Records, 1840 through 1920.
Maine Adjutant General’s Reports, 1862-1866.
Maine, U.S. Marriage Records, 1713-1922.
“Marriages,” The Eastern Times, Bath, Maine, February 2, 1854.
Third Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry: Timeline with Historical Information, Compiled by Craig Young, 2001, https://www.thirdmaine.org/PDF/3rdMEshort-hist.pdf

U.S., Civil War “Widows’ Pensions”, 1861-1910, https://www.fold3.com/file/270883822?xid=1945.
Joshua Lufkin Douglas, The Douglas Genealogy: The Descendants of John Douglas of Middleborough, Massachusetts, the First of This Branch in America (Bath, Maine: Sentinel and Times Publishers, 1890).
Edward P. Tobie, The History of the First Maine Cavalry, 1861-1865 (Boston, Massachusetts: Press of Emory, 1887).
Joseph T. Woodward, Historic Record and Complete Biographic Roster 21st Maine Volunteers with Reunion Records of the 21st Maine Regimental Association (Augusta, Maine: Charles E. Nash & Son, 1907).
“To the Honorable Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court in Bath,” The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine, October 30, 1874.

Find a Grave Database and Images, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110859350/lavonia-d.-clement, Lavonia D. Clement, Cedar Grove Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts, United States.
Maine, U.S., Death Records, 1761-1922.
Horace H. Shaw, The First Maine Heavy Artillery 1862-1865: A History of Its Part and Place in the War for the Union, With an Outline of Causes of the War and Its Results to Our Country (Portland, Maine, 1903).
“It Was Folly: Maine Regiment’s Disastrous Charge at Petersburg,” John Banks’ Civil War Blog, June 17, 2017, https://john-banks.blogspot.com/2017/06/it-was-folly-maine-regiments-disastrous.html
Tim Garrity, “All the Island Boys are gone: The Charge of the First Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment,” The Khronikos Blog, https://khronikosum.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/all-the-island-boys-are-gone-the-charge-of-the-first-maine-heavy-artillery-regiment/
Joel F. Brown, “The Charge of the Heavy Artillery,” The Maine Bugle, Rockland, Maine, January 1894.

Horace H. Shaw, The First Maine Heavy Artillery 1862-1865: A History of Its Part and Place in the War for the Union, With an Outline of Causes of the War and Its Results to Our Country (Portland, Maine, 1903).
Nathaniel N. Pratt, Letter to U.S. Penson Bureau, circa 1878 (courtesy of the U.S Archives).
Encyclopedia Virginia, “Belle Island Prison,” by Angela M. Zombek, https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/belle-isle-prison
North Carolina History Project, “Salisbury Prison (Civil War)” by Jonathan Martin, https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/salisbury-prison-civil-war




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