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Col Samuel H. Allen. Thomaston.

23 May 2019

Colonel Samuel Henderson Allen led the First Maine Cavalry on the Maryland Campaign and was appointed Military Governor of Frederick, MD on 13 September 1862. He resigned for health reasons in January 1863. His picture is on a page in Edward Parsons Tobie’s History of the First Maine Cavalry, 1861-1865 (1887).