Episode 14: Colonel Watson
Ambition. Memory. Legacy.
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Episode 13: The Broken Soldier
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 story arrives on July 8 in Episode 13, The Broken Soldier.
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Episode 12: The Reluctant Soldiers
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 brothers had no choice but to enlist. They became inseparable: same company, same tent, same war. Then two bullets changed everything.
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Episode 11: 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 father, who assured recruiters that his son was 18—the legal enlistment age. Granville survived the war, but he could not escape the affliction that had haunted the Holt family for generations.
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Episode 10: 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 several days before succumbing. His murder remains unsolved. In our final episode of Season One, Company D uses modern technology to attempt the impossible: solve a 143-year-old murder mystery.
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Episode 09: The Intolerant Life of Josiah Temple
Josiah A. Temple became a paid substitute for Captain William Watson of Company D. Wounded in the war, Temple set out on a life filled with contradictions. He was a lawyer who defrauded his clients. He was a politician who lied. He was a moral reformer accused of abusing women. His life would be lived with many regrets.
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Episode 08: 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, Maine. It is the story of a grief-stricken father marching straight into disaster, a widow who slips into a life of lies and betrayal, and a younger brother’s brutal path toward redemption.
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Episode 07: The Young Guns
They were teenagers when they enlisted. Jeremiah Wakefield and David Ring rose together, shared similar family histories, and committed to three more years of service with Company D. But in May 1864, during the savage fighting at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, their paths diverged: one was badly wounded, and the other was killed in battle.
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Episode 06: 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, Cornelia, and their infant daughter slid into poverty, denied a widow’s pension because no one could prove Leonard was gone. More than 163 years later, this episode of Company D follows the trail he left behind and uncovers the mystery of what became of Leonard Peaslee.
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Episode 05: The Carpetbagger
Four bullets couldn’t stop Henry Harrison Shaw.
After the war, the Union soldier rode straight into the heart of the defeated South—Tarboro, North Carolina.
There, the “carpetbagger” turned landowner did something remarkable: he sold his property along the Tar River to freed slaves. The ground they bought became sacred—Princeville, the first Black town in America. Listen to Ep05, “The Carpetbagger.”
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Episode 04: 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 the Third Maine ended with a bullet wound to the leg, followed by a special assignment: adjutant at one of the most notorious Union prisons in the Civil War. A bombastic bully has his day on Company D.
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Episode 03: 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 isn’t a slogan here; it’s the Kennersons’ life, and the Civil War runs straight through their front door. Loyalty, betrayal, and hard-won forgiveness take center stage in our third epsidode. Listen now or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Amazon.
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Episode 02: Nobody Likes You, Woodbury
Leadership under fire. Mutiny at his back. The slaughter of the Battle of Gettysburg was ahead. Lieutenant Woodbury Hall marched his men into hell. Was he a failure or a commander forged by chaos? Step inside his story on Company D. Listen now or subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Amazon Music.
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Episode 01: The Mystery of the Missing Captain
He was listed as missing. Then declared killed. Then reported wounded and captured. For more than 160 years, the final fate of Captain Alfred S. Merrill has remained a mystery. In the debut episode of Company D, we uncover the truth in “The Mystery of the Missing Captain.” Listen now—or subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music.
