Contraband

Sunday Tribune Headline: Contraband Found!

June 14th, 2008 Camp Baker, Pownal, ME

Mrs D Bergeron was camping with the Third ME. The First Sargent, M Bray, was tipped off by an informer that Mrs Bergeron had confederate items in her tent. On orders of the Sargent, Private Jared Johnson performed a search finding several Confederate items including a CS belt buckle, Confederate currency and personal letters.

Mrs Bergeron was asked to stand before the company while charged as a Confederate Sympathizer, upon questioning she claimed that the belt buckle and currency were sent to her by her brother, Micheal Bell. The personal letters were reviewed and offered proof that her brother was indeed a union soldier being held as a prisoner of war.

The charges were dropped at that time. Mrs Bergeron was unavailable for comment as she was suffering melancholy as a result of the experience

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