Guide to Simeon Adams Evans' reminscences, 1889
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Cite as: Simeon Adams Evans' reminiscences, Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
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Bound holograph memoir of Simeon Adams Evans (Bowdoin 1860) recounting student days at Bowdoin College, mention of classmate Thomas Brackett Reed, and the Bowdoin and Williams colleges' Greenland expedition under the direction of Prof. Paul Chadbourne (1860), Civil War medical service in the 13th and 14th Maine regiments, especially in the Port Hudson (La.) and Petersburg (Va.) campaigns, and, briefly, post-war civilian life in New Hampshire. Occasional correspondence, newspaper clippings, and Civil War documents laid in.
- United States. -- Army. -- Maine Infantry Regiment, 13th (1861-1864).
- United States. -- Army. -- Maine Infantry Regiment, 14th (1861-1865).
- Bowdoin College -- Students.
- Biographies. -- lcgft.
- Personal narratives. -- lcgft.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
- Greenland -- Description and travel.
- Evans, Simeon Adams, 1837-1895
- Chadbourne, Paul A. (Paul Ansel), 1823-1883.
- Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett), 1839-1902.
- Scientific expeditions -- Greenland.
- Physicians -- New Hampshire -- Biography.
Forms part of the Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection in the Bowdoin College Special Collections & Archives.