Sarah Elizabeth Palmer Tent #23

Photos courtesy of Sarah Elizabeth Palmer Tent #23

CIVIL WAR MEMORIALS — The Sarah Elizabeth Palmer Tent #23, Daughters of Union Veterans (DUV) and the Daniel Chaplin Camp #3, Sons of Union Veterans (SUV) held a joint memorial May 28 to honor two Dover-Foxcroft residents who served during the Civil War. Sarah Elizabeth Palmer left home in 1862 to volunteer as a nurse for the wounded in Washington, D.C. and Alexandria,Va. She served directly under Dorothea Dix along with hundreds of other women from the north until the end of the war.  The SUV honored Dr. Elbridge Thompson, a Foxcroft Academy graduate who enlisted at the outbreak. He was attached to the 12th Regiment of Maine Volunteers and saw action in the Shenandoah Valley and from Vicksburg to New Orleans. For three years Dr. Thompson treated the wounded and witnessed the worst conditions imaginable for a medical healer. He served until December 1864 when he was transferred to the Provost Marshal’s office in Bangor until the close of the war. He then returned to Dover and resumed his private practice, along with becoming very active in the community.

Attending from the DUV and SUV were Molly and Eric Bennett, Toni Snyder, Jennifer Sylvain, Linda Tozier, Carmen Smith, Tootie and Wayne Bennett, Jim and Mary Annis. For more information about joining the DUV, contact Estella Bennett at 876-3073.