Bonus Material and Sources for “Colonel Watson: William H. Watson”

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Frederick D. Sewell, Letter to Governor Washburn, July 28, 1862 (courtesy of Maine State Archives).

William H. Watson, Letter Requesting Promotion and Transfer, September 5, 1862 (Courtesy of Maine State Archives).

William H. Watson, Resignation Letter, September 5, 1862 (Courtesy of Maine State Archives).

The Dirigo History Project, “The History of the Bath City Grays,” YouTube video, 3:46, uploaded March 5, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hVwtQWfYLo&t=3s

Maine, U.S. Death Records, 1761-1922.

Julia Draper (Watson) Bemis and Alonzo Amas Bemis, History and Genealogy of the Watson Family, Descendants of Matthew Watson, Who Came to America in 1718 (Spencer, Mass, 1894).

U.S. Census Records, 1840 through 1920.

“Died, Joseph E.,” Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, November 20, 1846.

“Death Notice, Sewall Watson,” The Portland Daily Press, Portland, Maine, July 14, 1882.

“Hon. Sewall Watson,” The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine, June 13, 1882.

“Kents Hill School,” Wikipedia, last modified December 7, 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kents_Hill_School

“Fire,” The Daily Sentinel and Times, Bath, Maine, September 3, 1863.

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

William E.S. Whitman, Maine in the War for the Union: A History of the Part Borne by Maine Troops in the Suppression of the American Rebellion (Lewiston, Maine: Nelson Dingley Jr. & Co. Publishers, 1865).

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).

Illustrated Historical Souvenir of the City of Bath, Maine (Bath, ME: Illustrated Historical Souvenir Co., 1899).

William H. Watson, Letter to Brother Sewall, July 28, 1861 (courtesy of Pearce Civil War & Western Art Museum).

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

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

Peter Levine, Draft Evasion in the North during the Civil War, 1863-1865, Oxford Journal, January 28, 2013.

“The Third Maine Regiment,” The Daily Sentinel and Times, November 20, 1862.

“Appointments,” The Daily Sentinel and Times, January 2, 1863.

“Stove and General Furnishings Store,” The Daily Sentinel and Times, July 16, 1863.

“Substitutes,” The Daily Sentinel and Times, August 25, 1863.

“List of Casualties 17 Maine—Official,” The Portland Daily Press, December 9, 1863.

U.S., Civil War “Widows’ Pensions,” 1861-1910, The National Archives

U.S. Census Records, 1840 through 1920.

Maine Adjutant General’s Office, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year Ending December 31, 1862 (Augusta, ME: Stevens & Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863).

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

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).

William H. Watson, Letter Requesting Promotion and Transfer, September 9, 1862 (Courtesy of Maine State Archives).

“Many Changes,” Bath Daily Times, January 18, 1906.

“Veteran Merchant,” Bath Independent & Enterprise, January 13, 1906.

“Crack Military Company,” Bath Independent, July 22, 1911.

William H. Watson, Letter to Governor Washburn, September 5, 1862 (courtesy of Maine State Archives).

“The Bath Volunteers,” The Times Record (Brunswick, Maine), April 27, 1911.

“Another Death,” Bath Independent, July 15, 1882.

Frederick D. Sewall, Letter to Governor, July 22, 1862 (courtesy of Maine State Archives).

“Golden Wedding,” Bath Independent and Enterprise, October 17, 1908.

“Oldest Merchant Retires,” Bath Independent, July 30, 1910.

 “Col. William H. Watson Veteran of the Civil War Dies at Age 98,” Bath Independent, June 21, 1928.

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