This Company was formed in the early Fall of 1861. Its members were
chiefly from the towns of the upper Penobscot, from Lee, Springfield,
Topsfield, Enfield, Prentiss, and contiguous towns; a few from other
parts of the State signing the Company rolls at Augusta.
According to its first descriptive list, much the greater number of the
original members of D were farmers by occupation at the time of their
enlistment, and most of them were young men of from eighteen to
twenty-four years of age. And according to the same authority, its
voluntary organization consisted of Leonard S. Harvey, Captain; John D.
Stanwood, First Lieutenant; Gibson S. Budge, Second Lieutenant; Robert
Brady, First Sergeant; with Abner F. Bassett, Jas. W. Noyes, Judson L.
Young and Francis M. Johnson as Sergeants; John McDonald, Richard W.
Dawe, Ephraim Francis, Hughey G. Rideout, John Sherman, Benjamin Gould,
Wm. H. Chamberlain and Freeman R. Dakin as Corporals; Robert A.
Strickland, Musician; Henry W. Rider, Wagoner; the rest of the Company,
77 in number, consenting to serve their country as private soldiers.