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. The full episode drops on June 14.

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.

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 Maine's youngest Civil War soldiers. Granville survived the war, but he couldn't escape the affliction that haunted the Holt family for generations. The full episode drops 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 Granville Holt, one of the youngest soldiers from Maine. You'll discover the York family, who sent more sons to war than any other family in the state. You'll encounter the enigmatic ghost photographer Bainbridge Browne and follow the Coulliard brothers, who fought against each other on the same battlefield—one for the Union, the other for the Confederacy. One Regiment. One Company. Countless Stories.

Before Season Two begins, a quick update on the origins of Company D and what comes next.

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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 try to do the impossible: solve a 143-year-old murder mystery.

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. The old man’s wallet is missing, his locked valise is opened and empty, and the premises have been cleared of all the cash he allegedly hoarded inside. What happened to Corporal Joseph Emery Purrington’s elderly father on the rain-soaked night of September 27, 1882, has remained a mystery for more than 143 years. Until now.

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 Infantry and 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. Temple was a troubled personality, losing nearly his entire family in childhood, and a man who failed miserably to live up to the ideals he espoused.