Bonus Material and Sources for “The Broken Soldier: Moses O. Crafts”
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U.S. Pension File of Moses O. Crafts, Company D, 3rd Maine Infantry Regiment, Minor’s Pension Certificate No. 17,808, Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
James M. Crafts and William F. Crafts, The Crafts Family: A Genealogical and Biographical History of the Descendants of Griffin and Alice Craft of Roxbury, Mass., 1630-1890 (Northampton, Mass.: Gazette Printing Company, 1893).
“Hebron Academy Timeline,” Lewiston Sun-Journal, Lewiston, Maine, October 10, 2004.
“Hebron Academy notes 200 years,” Lewiston Sun-Journal, Lewiston, Maine, February 26, 2004.
Henry Wilson Owen, The Edward Clarence Plummer History of Bath, Maine (Bath, Maine, Bath Area Bicentennial Committee, 1976).
Parker McCoff Reed, History of Bath and Environs, Sagadahoc County, Maine, 1607-1894, With Illustrations (Portland, ME, Lakeside Press, Printers, 1894).
“Memorial Day Window,” Bath Daily Times, Bath, Maine, May 25, 1907.
General Catalogue of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine: A Biographical Record of Alumni and Officers, 1794-1950 (Brunswick, Maine, 1950).
U.S. Census Records, 1850-1900.
“102nd New York Infantry Regiment’s Civil War Historical Sketch,” The Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg by the New York Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga (Albany, New York: J.B. Lyon Company, 1902).
A Record of the Commissioned Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Privates of the Regiments Which were Organized in the State of New York and Called into the Service of the United States to Assist in the Suppressing the Rebellion, New York State Adjutant General Office (Albany, New York: Weed Parsons and Company Printers, 1868).
“For the Van Buren Light Infantry,” The Times-Union, Rochester, New York, December 11, 1861.
John MacDonald, Great Battles of the Civil War (New York, New York: Chartwell Books, 1988).
“Diary of the Third Maine Regiment by a Member of It, “ Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, July 19, 1861.
Charles F. Snell, Unpublished Civil War Diary (courtesy of George F. Snell III).
“From Our Boys,” The Eastern Mail, Waterville, Maine, August 8, 1861.
“Letter from the Third Maine,” Gardiner Home Journal, Gardiner, Maine, August 8, 1861.
Amos Bean, Letter to Mother and Father, August 4, 1861 (Courtesy of Barry York).
“Letter from the Third Maine,” Gardiner Home Journal, Gardiner, Maine, August 1, 1861.
Hannibal Johnson, Letter to Friend Samuel, October 2, 1861 (Courtesy of Spared and Shared).
Colonel Oliver O. Howard, report of July 25, 1861, in The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. 2 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880).
Major Henry Staples, report of July 27, 1861, in The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. 2 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880).
“Letter from the Third Maine Regiment,” Gardiner Home Journal, Gardiner, Maine, August 1, 1861.
Bull Run Campaign, Return of casualties in the Third Division, Army (Union) of Northeastern Virginia, at the battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, in The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. 2 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880).
Third Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry: Timeline with Historical Information, Compiled by Craig Young, 2001, https://www.thirdmaine.org/PDF/3rdMEshort-hist.pdf
Oliver O. Howard, The Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, Major General, United States Army, Volume One (New York, New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1907).
Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year Ending December 31, 1863 (Augusta, ME: Stevens & Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863).
William H. Higgins, Letter to his Brother, October 3, 1861 (Courtesy of the Maine State Archives).
U.S. Pension Records, Robert F. Sanborn Jr., National Archives, Washington, D.C.
“Diary of the Third Maine Regiment, By a Member of It,” Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, August 9, 1981.
Hannibal A. Johnson, The Sword of Honor: A Story of the Civil War by Lieutenant H. A. Johnson Third Maine Regiment N.V.M. (Worcester, Massachusetts: The Blanchard Press, 1906).
Charles F. Snell, Unpublished Civil War Diary (courtesy of George F. Snell III).
Amos G. Bean, Life of Amos G. Bean as a Soldier (Unpublished recollections kindly provided by Barry York and his family, descendants of Amos Gilbert Bean).
“Union Rallying Committees,” The Daily Sentinel and Times, Bath, Maine, November 8, 1864.
“Veteran Meeting,” The Daily Sentinel and Times, Bath, Maine, June 20, 1865.
“City Council,” The Bath Daily Times, Bath, Maine, November 6, 1871.
“Funeral of Moses O. Crafts,” Lewiston Evening Journal, Lewiston, Maine, January 15, 1892
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