Artifacts recovered from the site of Benedict Arnold’s log hospital on the Great Carrying Place in Maine are currently being treated by the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands and should be ready for display at the Colburn House State Historic Site this summer. The cast iron kettle (at left) has been treated with a … Read more
Among the artifacts recovered from the site of Benedict Arnold’s log hospital on the Great Carrying Place in Maine is a pewter military button in surprisingly good condition for having spent 236 years underground. Military artist, author and collector Don Troiani has identified it as one of the thousands of buttons issued in 1775 by … Read more
Voices from a Wilderness Expedition: The Journals and Men of Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec in 1775 by Stephen Darley The purpose of Voices from a Wilderness Expedition is to reawaken the now silent voices of the brave men who made the historic 1775 march through the Maine wilderness with Benedict Arnold to attack Quebec and … Read more
Patriot on the Kennebec: Major Reuben Colburn, Benedict Arnold and the March to Quebec, 1775 by Mark York From the back cover In late 1775, a few months after the first shots of the Revolution were fired, Benedict Arnold led more than one thousand troops into Quebec to attack the British there. Departing from Massachusetts, … Read more