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

On August 20, eleven AEHS members went up to the Great Carrying Place in the Maine wilderness to search for the site of the log hospital built by Arnold’s men in October 1775. Traveling back to the general area of a site that the group located in 1974, the party began locating artifacts almost immediately. … Read more