Approximately 9,400 Mainers sacrificed their lives to defeat that traitor flag and what it represented. https://twitter.com/chelseahandler/status/1302674590821494785

"Maine was so eager for the cause that it ended up contributing a larger number of combatants, in proportion to its population than any other Union state.[1] About 80,000 men from Maine served in the U.S. military as soldiers and sailors."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_in_the_American_Civil_War#cite_note-1

This letter from Union soldier Walter Stone Poor, a Mainer...

Gen. Hiram G. Berry, of Rockland, Maine, killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

"have hearts like oak and let the Stars and Stripes wave high."
https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/2430/slideshow/1476/display?use_mmn=1&format=slideshow&prev_object_id=3911&prev_object=page&slide_num=5

Sgt. Nelson Jones, of Palermo, Maine. Killed at Gettysburg.

Sgt. Obed Millett, of Palmyra, Maine, one of four brothers who served.

Taken prisoner. Paroled. *Re-enlisted.* Killed at the Battle of Cold Harbor. https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/2430/slideshow/1476/display?use_mmn=1&format=slideshow&prev_object_id=3911&prev_object=page&slide_num=16