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George F. Snell III
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Ep11: His Insanity Was Inherited
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…
Ep11 Trailer: Granville M. Holt
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…
Season Two Trailer: Launching June 10
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…
Special Episode: One Regiment. One Company. Countless Stories
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…
Ep10: The Mystery of the Mangled Miser
On the rainy evening of September 27, 1882, an elderly miser named Joseph H. Higgins was ambushed at the doorway to his isolated cabin in Bath, Maine. He was robbed and left for dead, lingering…
Ep10 Trailer: Joseph Purington
A cantankerous old man, rumored to be a wealthy miser, and who has strained relations with his dysfunctional family, is found battered and bloody on the floor of his isolated house in Bath, Maine.…
Ep09: The Intolerant Life of Josiah Temple
Josiah A. Temple became a substitute for Captain William Watson of Company D after he quit service and was then drafted. Watson paid Temple to take his place. Temple joined the Seventeenth Maine…
Ep09 Trailer: Josiah Temple
Josiah Temple became the paid substitute for former Company D Captain William Watson. Taking money to fight for another man became symbolic of the life Temple would lead. He became a lawyer,…
Ep08: The Awful Hole Left by Gustavus Pratt
More than 700,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. This episode follows how the death of a single soldier, Private Gustavus Pratt, altered the course of one family: the Pratts of Richmond,…
Ep08 Teaser: Gustavus Pratt
Private Gustavus Pratt died of typhoid fever on June 25, 1862. He was 32 years old. His death did not end with him.It tore a hole through his family, through the mind of his wife, the faith of his…
Ep07: The Young Guns
They were teenagers when they enlisted, young soldiers whose ambition and courage propelled them into the leadership ranks of Company D as the American Civil War consumed older men around them.…
Ep07 Teaser: Jeremiah Wakefield
More than one in five Civil War soldiers were teenagers. In Company D, two of them, 18-year-old David Ring and 19-year-old Jeremiah Wakefield, rose quickly through the ranks on ambition and grit. But…
Ep06: Leonard Peaslee is Gone
On July 4, 1862, Private Leonard Peaslee vanished from the U.S. General Hospital in Annapolis, Maryland. No discharge. No death record. No trace. His disappearance shattered his family: his wife,…
Ep06 Teaser: Leonard Peaslee
On May 5, 1862, Private Leonard Peaslee checked into U.S. General Hospital in Annapolis, sick but expected to recover. Two months later, after writing his wife on July 4, he vanished. No death…
Ep05: The Carpetbagger
Shot four times in battle, Henry H. Shaw of Maine refused to quit. A decorated hero of the Third Maine Infantry, he marched not home but South—into the heart of Reconstruction. In Tarboro, North…
Ep05 Teaser: Henry H. Shaw
Henry Harrison Shaw survived four Confederate bullets during the war. But when the guns fell silent, the Union veteran did something few could fathom—he went South. To Tarboro, North Carolina.Once…
Ep04: The Old Warhorse
William Hogan Higgins had an oversized ego and an outsized personality. Traits that won him loyal followers but also many enemies, including the Governor of Maine. His rocky tenure with Company D of…
Ep04 Teaser: William Higgins
Every company has one. The bully, the know-it-all, the man who can’t help but take over a room. For Company D, it was William Hogan Higgins. He threatened Maine’s governor. He browbeat his own nephew…
Ep03: Albion Kennerson's Confederate Brother
James Kennerson leaves Maine for Alabama—and within months is forced into marriage and then enlists with the Confederacy, fighting against his two brothers in Union blue. Brother against brother…
Ep03 Teaser: Albion Kennerson
Two brothers from Maine. One fought for the U.S. Army. The other joined the Confederacy. One wore blue and fought to keep the nation together. The other donned gray and battled to split the country…
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Company D has published 25 episodes since August 2025, covering topics in Documentary, History.
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