Company D

Three Maine brothers. Loyalties divided between the Union and the Confederacy. One battlefield. James and Charles Couillard fought for the Third Maine. Their brother John worked on a slave plantation and joined the...

Born into one of Bath, Maine’s wealthiest families, James H. Tallman enlisted in the Union Army as a private and quickly rose to major. But money and connections couldn’t protect him from his own reckless behavior...

Born into wealth and privilege, James H. Tallman enlisted as a private in Company D of the Third Maine and quickly rose through the ranks to become a major in the Union Army. But Tallman’s confidence became recklessness...

When James E. Hooper was drafted into the Union Army, he paid George S. Stewart to take his place. Stewart went to war. Hooper stayed home. But neither man escaped what followed. Episode 15 traces the intertwined lives...

George S. Stewart, a poor brickmaker in New Hampshire, became the paid substitute for James Hooper of Paris, Maine. One man took the other's place to fight in the American Civil War. Yet, somehow, the fates of these two...

One failed promotion cost Captain William H. Watson his military career. Or so he thought. After resigning his commission, he was drafted back into the Union Army and paid a substitute to serve in his place rather than...

Captain William H. Watson gambled his military career on a promotion he believed was certain. Instead, he resigned his commission, watched his ambitions collapse, and was drafted back into the Union Army as an enlisted...

A single bullet at the Battle of Bull Run shattered Moses O. Crafts' knee and changed the course of his life. By the time he returned home to Bath, Maine, he had traded a sergeant's stripes for a private's, a musket for...

A gunshot wound ended Sergeant Moses O. Crafts' Civil War service. It never stopped shaping his life. For decades afterward, he described the same pain: a knee that turned numb, cold, and nearly useless. His remarkable...

Drafted into the Civil War they never wanted to fight, John and Frank Shorey served side by side in the Third Maine Infantry. Same company. Same tent. Same war. They even wrote letters home together. Then two bullets...

The Shorey brothers never wanted to be soldiers. John and Frank worked at their father's brickyard in Norridgewock, Maine, and hoped to avoid the Civil War altogether. But when the draft caught up with them in 1863, the...

Boy soldier Granville M. Holt enlisted in the U.S. Army at just 15 years old, becoming one of the youngest Civil War soldiers in Maine history. He managed this feat with the blessing of his minister father, who assured...

Granville M. Holt became a U.S. infantryman in the American Civil War in 1863. He was 15 years old, three years under the legal minimum age, but he enlisted with the blessing of his minister father to become one of...

Season Two of Company D returns June 10 with 10 brand-new episodes exploring the soldiers and families of Company D of the Third Maine Infantry Regiment. This season, you'll meet 15-year-old Granville Holt, one of the...

Before Season Two begins, a quick update on the origins of Company D and what comes next. To help support research, archival work, and production for the new season, we’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign. If you’d like...