Item 5537 - Neal Dow, Portland, 1874
- Item 5537 - Neal Dow, Portland, 1874
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Image Info Neal Dow served two terms as mayor of Portland and as a colonel and general of the 13th Maine Volunteers during the American Civil War.
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He was taken prisoner and was interned at the Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, and at Mobile, Alabama, for several months.
He believed strongly in prohibition and anti-slavery and was the driving force behind the 1851 law that established prohibition in Maine.
