Charles P. Mattocks

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Commissioned first lieutenant July 31, 1862.NoteTag|One source states simply that he was "mustered into the 17th Maine, Company A, as 1st lieutenant on August 21, 1862." Mattocks was ordered to take command of the regiments at Chickamauga, Georgia, but the war ended before he was able to take part in the action.

On October 7, 1898, Mattocks along with 28 other generals were honorably discharged from the volunteer army of the United States by the War Department. This was not due to the performance of the generals, but rather because the size of the army had been reduced by 50%, and there was no longer a need for such a large number of officers.

Post-Civil War Portland Soldiers and Sailors Monument, also known as Our Lady of Victories, c. 1895 Mattocks attended Harvard Law School, studied under Edward Fox, and graduated in 1867. He then opened a law office in Portland, and in 1869, became county attorney for Cumberland County, Maine. He held the position from 1870 to 1873.

Mattocks maintained a large farm in Baldwin, Maine. Mattocks was a Freemason, as well as an Adjutant General and Department Commander in the Grand Army of the Republic in Maine. He was also one of the first members of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He also acted as the orator to introduce a statue of Major General Joseph Hooker, erected in Massachusetts. In 1880, Mattocks was elected to the Maine House of Representatives, as a Republican, and served there for four years. He was appointed Inspector-General on Governor Frederick Robie's staff on January 12, 1883. Mattocks was appointed judge of probate for Cumberland County in December 1900. After his death, his wife, Ella Mattocks, was paid $50 monthly as part of Charles's military pension. In 1955, the Charles P. Mattocks Scholarship was established at Bowdoin College. The Brown Memorial Library in Baldwin, Maine, also home to the Baldwin Historical Society, was established in 1907 based on a tract of land originally donated by Mattocks.

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