HeyJaredCompany D
Company D brings the American Civil War to life through the eyes of citizen-soldiers. One Regiment. One Company. Countless stories of courage, sacrifice, and betrayal—exposing the human toll of a war that transformed the United States.
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Ep17 Trailer: The Couillard Brothers (opens the original)
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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 Sixth Louisiana. At Fredericksburg, they clashed head-to-head, with consequences that would widen their divide forever. Episode 17, Union Brothers, Slaver Brother , arrives September 30.
Ep16: The Poor Little Rich Boy (opens the original)
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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. Episode 16 traces Tallman’s remarkable rise and fall through two court-martials, scandal, dismissal, and an early death that brought one of Maine’s most prominent families crashing back to earth.
Ep16 Trailer: James H. Tallman (opens the original)
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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 and led to not one court-martial, but two in less than two years. Episode 16, The Poor Little Rich Boy , arrives September 16.
Ep15: Two Strangers, One Fate (opens the original)
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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 of two strangers whose single transaction ended in disappearance, imprisonment, disease, and death.
Ep15 Trailer: George S. Stewart (opens the original)
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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 strangers became dangerously intertwined. Episode 15, Two Strangers, One Fate , arrives September 2.
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