"Far from over the distance,
The faltering echoes come:
Of the flying blast of bugle
And the rattling roll of drum."
1890.
_In offering this Sketch, Roster and Statistical Record of the services
of Company D in the War of the Rebellion, to its members, we wish to
acknowledge the kind assistance given in its preparation by the men of
D and of the Eleventh; also of that given by citizen friends in Maine,
in tracing the fate of members of the Company who have wandered out of
view in the twenty-five years that have passed since they were mustered
out; and to acknowledge that of Captain Thomas Clark of the Office of
the Adjutant-General of Maine, he having kindly furnished us with
valuable and necessary information._
_In reading the Sketch, members of D will kindly remember that it is
written from one point of view only, and that many things they would
like to see in it that are not there, may not have been sufficiently
well remembered by the writer, if he ever knew them, to enable him to
set them down in a trustworthy manner, and, too, that the limitations
of space and the unity of the sketch made it necessary for him to leave
out many things that he himself would have been glad to have
incorporated in the story he had to tell._
_The Roster and Statistical Record is as complete as it has seemed
possible to make it. That there are blanks where there should be
information is not at all the fault of the compiler, he having sought
diligently but unsuccessfully for the information the blank spaces
should furnish._
_ALBERT MAXFIELD_,
_ROBERT BRADY, Jr._