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  Forlorn Hope

  Forlorn Hope

  On a warm summer afternoon, late in the Civil War, more than 850 Maine Soldiers accepted orders to charge an entrenched Confederate position on the outskirts of Petersburg, Virginia. Within 10 minutes of their charge, more than 630 of those soldiers were struck down. It was the largest number of ...

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  08:40

  Billy Boy: The Execution of Billy Laird

  Billy Boy: The Execution of Billy Laird

  He never saw battle.
  He never fired a shot.
  But in 1863, William Laird, a mentally challenged young man from Maine, was executed by a Union Army firing squad.
  This is one of the most tragic and forgotten stories of the Civil War.