Alonzo P. Stinson

Third Sergeant Company H

Fifth Regiment

Maine Volunteer Infantry

Aged 19 Years

Killed First Battle Bull Run

July 21st 1861

Sergeant Stinson was the first

volunteer soldier from

Portland

to give his life for

the preservation of the Union

in the Civil War

Presented to the City of Portland

July 4th 1908

Marker is at the intersection of Congress Street and Mountfort Street, on the right when traveling north on Congress Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Credits and Sources:

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