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Maine in the American Civil War : ウィキペディア英語版 | Maine in the American Civil War
During the American Civil War, the state of Maine was a source of military manpower, supplies, ships, arms, and political support for the Union Army. Maine was the first state in the northeast to be aligned with the new Republican Party, partly due to the influence of evangelical Protestantism, and partly to the fact that Maine was a frontier state, and thus receptive to the party's "free soil" platform. Abraham Lincoln chose Maine's Hannibal Hamlin as his first Vice President, and said on meeting Brunswick novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe (the author of ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''), "so this is the little lady who made this big war".〔Hanne, Michael, ''The Power of the Story: Fiction and Political Change'' (1996), p. 75.〕 Maine was so eager for the cause that it ended up contributing a larger number of combatants, in proportion to its population, than any other Union state.〔Whitman & True, p. 21.〕 It was second only to Massachusetts in the number of its sailors who served in the Union Navy. Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain (later a major general) and the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment played a key role at the Battle of Gettysburg, and the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment lost more men in a single charge (during the Siege of Petersburg) than any Union regiment in the war. ==Maine's contributions==
About 80,000 men from Maine served in the U.S. military as soldiers and sailors. They were organized into 32 infantry and two cavalry regiments, and seven light Artillery batteries and one heavy artillery regiment. Hundreds of civilians served as nurses, doctors, relief workers, and agents at home and on the field of battle. Many served in the United States Sanitary Commission or United States Christian Commission, as well as similar organizations.〔(Maine Civil War Trails ) Retrieved 2008-10-13 〕
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