Bonus Material and Sources for “The Reluctant Soldiers: The Shorey Brothers”

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John W. Haley, The Rebel Yell & the Yankee Hurrah: The Civil War Journal of a Maine Volunteer, Edited by Ruth L. Silliker (Down East Books, Camden, Maine, 1985).

William B. Jordon, Red Diamond Regiment: The 17^th Maine Infantry 1862-1865 (White Mane Publishing Company, Shippensburg, PA, 1996).

Charles Mattocks, Unspoiled Heart: The Journal of Charles Mattocks of the Seventeenth Maine, Edited by Philip N. Racine (The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN, 1994).

“The 17^th Maine—Gallantry and Casualties,” The Portland Daily Press, Portland, Maine, April 20, 1865.

William Allen, The History of Norridgewock, Comprising Memorials of the Aboriginal Inhabitants and Jesuit Missionaries, Hardships of the Pioneers, Biographical Notices of the Early Settlers, and Ecclesiastical Sketches (Edward J. Peet, Norridgewock, Maine, 1849).

Oscar Earl Merrow, Henry Merrow of Reading, Massachusetts, and His Descendants Named Merrow, Marrow, and Merry (Winchester, Massachusetts, 1934).

Becky Ketchum, “Brick by Brick…Norridgewock’s Brick Yards,” Norridgewock Historical Society Newsletter, Winter, 2025.

Maine, U.S., Marriage Records, 1713-1922 (Maine State Archives).

Maine, U.S. Faylene Hutton Cemetery Collection, 1780-1990.

“Mrs. Shorey Obit,” Lewiston Falls Journal, March 6, 1862.

“The Draft,” Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, July 24, 1863.

“List of Exemptions and Their Causes,” The Portland Daily Press, Portland, Maine, September 22, 1863.

Bowden, Murray, “The Problem of Conscription in Maine During the Civil War” (1948). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3377.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/3377

Letter to Zebedee Powell, Benjamin Shorey, November 2, 1863 (Courtesy of Spared and Shared),

Letter to Zebedee Powell, John Shorey, November 10, 1863 (Courtesy of Spared and Shared).

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

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

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

Charles F. Snell, Unpublished Civil War Diary (courtesy of George F. Snell III).

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

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

Civil War Index Cards, State of Maine, Library Bureau (Courtesy of the Maine State Archives).

“The Wisconsin Sharpshooters,” Wisconsin State Journal, October 29, 1863.

“Company D Wounded,” The Lewiston Sun-Journal, Lewiston, Maine, May 30, 1864.

“Casualties in Third Maine,” The Daily Sentinel and Times, Bath, Maine, June 2, 1864.

Maine Adjutant Annual Reports, 1863, 1864-65, 1866.

U.S., Burial Registers, Military Posts and National Cemeteries, 1862-1960, Benj. Shorey.

U.S. Pension File of Benjamin Franklin Shorey, Company D, 3rd Maine Infantry Regiment, Minor’s Pension Certificate No. 47,968 Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Philip Katcher, The Civil War: Day by Day (Windmill Book, London, 2007).

William B. Jordon, Jr., Red Diamond Regiment: The 17^th Maine Infantry, 1862-1865 (White Mane Publishing Company, Shippensburg, PA, 1996).

U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885.

Henry W. Hardon, Huntress Family, Volume 2 (New York City, Undated, part of the U.S. Family History Books collection on Ancestry.com).

Horace H. Shaw, Charles J. House, The First Maine Heavy Artillery, 1862-1865 (Portland, Maine, 1903).

1890 Veterans Schedules of the U.S. Federal Census for John Shorey.

U.S. Census Records, 1830-1870.

The National Archives in Washington, D.C., Historical Register of National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938.

Maine, U.S., Wills and Probate Records (Somerset County, Maine), 1584-1999.

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