Company D

A cantankerous old man, rumored to be a wealthy miser, and who has strained relations with... more

Josiah A. Temple became a substitute for Captain William Watson of Company D after he quit... more

Josiah Temple became the paid substitute for former Company D Captain William Watson. Taki... more

More than 700,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. This episode follows how the de... more

Private Gustavus Pratt died of typhoid fever on June 25, 1862. He was 32 years old. His de... more

They were teenagers when they enlisted, young soldiers whose ambition and courage propelle... more

More than one in five Civil War soldiers were teenagers. In Company D, two of them, 18-yea... more

On July 4, 1862, Private Leonard Peaslee vanished from the U.S. General Hospital in Annapo... more

On May 5, 1862, Private Leonard Peaslee checked into U.S. General Hospital in Annapolis, s... more

Shot four times in battle, Henry H. Shaw of Maine refused to quit. A decorated hero of the... more

Henry Harrison Shaw survived four Confederate bullets during the war. But when the guns fe... more

William Hogan Higgins had an oversized ego and an outsized personality. Traits that won hi... more

Every company has one. The bully, the know-it-all, the man who can’t help but take over a ... more

James Kennerson leaves Maine for Alabama—and within months is forced into marriage and the... more

Two brothers from Maine. One fought for the U.S. Army. The other joined the Confederacy. O... more

Leadership under fire. Mutiny at his back. The slaughter of the Battle of Gettysburg was a... more

His men despised him. They called Lieutenant Woodbury Hall "incompetent" and "obnoxious." ... more

He was listed as missing. Then declared killed. Then reported wounded and captured. For mo... more

What happened to Captain Alfred S. Merrill on a battlefield in Spotsylvania? For 160 years... more

Think the American Civil War is dusty and dull? Company D proves you wrong with true stori... more