Bangor - 2nd Maine

 
County: Penobscot Source of Funding: Bequest of Colonel Luther Hills Pierce
Location: Mount Hope Cemetery, 1038 State St  Maker/Sculptor: O.V. Shaffer, sculptor
Type: Sculpture Materials: Granite, Bronze
Date Erected: 1963 Date Dedicated: Unknown
Principal Inscriptions: Not Painlessly Doth God Recast/And Mould Anew The Nation/Second Maine Regiment/Of Volunteers/Battle Record July 1861-May 1863/Bull Run/York Town/Gaines' Mill/Malvern Hill/Manassas - 2nd Bull Run/Antietam/Sheperdstown Ford/Fredericksburg Chancellorsville Second Inscriptions: In Memory Of The/Second Maine Regiment/Of Volunteers/Gift Of/Luther H. Pierce/A Member of That Regiment
References: Mount Hope Cemetery Corporation, Memorial To The Second Maine Regiment of Volunteers, Bangor, 1968; Trudy I. Scee, Mount Hope Cemetery, A Twentieth Century History, Bangor, 1999
Name: Second Maine Regiment Memorial

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