A period photograph of the winter 1861 / 1862 Louden’s Hill encampment
of the 4th Maine Infantry Regiment.  Located about 2 ½ miles from
Alexandria near Fort Lyon, Virginia.   The image is overlaid by a finely
carved bone and laurel root cigar holder.
Some lucky little girl would be most pleased by a
beautifully done rag doll face lovingly fashioned from a
left over beef bone.
A winter quarters sketch by Corporal Edgar A. Burpee of the 19th Maine Infantry is annotated,
“As your special correspondent appeared while writing this letter”.   A Rockland , Maine resident young Burpee joined the fray in
the summer of 1862 when he enlisted as a Corporal of Co. I.  Before his mid May discharge in 1864 Burpee would rise to the
commissioned rank of Captain.  Captured at Jerusalem Plank Road, Virginia in June 1864 Capt. Burpee was confined in Confederate
prisons at Macon, Georgia then Columbia, South Carolina.  
W. Frank Rogers: A twenty-one
year old resident of Brownville,
Maine when he enlisted as
Private of Co. H 11th Maine
Infantry. Rogers was killed in
action at Bermuda Hundred,
Virginia June 2 1864.
The bone finger ring of an
unidentified member of the
hard fought 3rd Maine
Volunteers.
Frank Fairbrother :  A nineteen
year old resident of Palmyra,
Maine when he enlisted as a
Private of Co. G 16th Maine,
Fairbrother died of wounds
suffered at Gettysburg on July 1,
1863.