These accounts will tell you what it was like to be a participant in the Civil War.

A section of Main Street is decorated for the Welcome of the 19th Regiment when they returned from the Civil War about July 1865 as they had enlisted for 3 years on July 25, 1862.
Bowdoinham in the Civil War (B)Civil War Boy Soldier (part 1)
Civil War Boy Soldier (part 2)
Harward Ship Ran Confederate Guns
The town of Bowdoinham honors her 217 men who took part in the Civil War with the little park and the canon pictured above.