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Pigeon and Verse corner card from Jewett Turner, Private in Company B, 8th Maine Regiment to his wife in New Haven, Maine. This was likely used August 8, 1864, while the unit was at the siege of Petersburg.
Clara Thomas and Jewett Turner were married in 1860. Her family owned a large farm which was the Thomas farm, later renamed the Turner Farm, which remains to this day.
Jewett Turner enlisted in Company B of the 8th Maine Regiment on August 16, 1862 and served until the end of the war (June 30, 1865). Jewett died in 1896 at the age of 60.