Our Corps moved towards Richmond in a leisurely and gala-day manner,
the bands playing whenever we moved through a village or country
"city," (the white flag flying from every house in token of
acquiescence in the terms of the surrender.) Our columns, objects of
intense curiosity to sway crowds of women and children, white and
black, with swarthy, gray clothed veterans peeping grimly from out of
the background at the men they had never before been so near except in
armed violence. We arrived at Manchester, opposite Richmond, the 25th
of April, where we camped for the night. The 26th we entered the city
and were received by the occupying troops, troops of the Army of the
James, the city having surrendered to General Weitzel's advance from
the north side, on the morning of April 3d. There was a marked contrast
in the appearance of ourselves and the receiving comrades. They as
spick and span as if just turned out of military band boxes, we ragged
and dust laden, but as we marched along between their drawn up lines,
it was plainly expressed to us that they would gladly be able to change
places with Foster's division to bear its prestige of endurance and
intrepidity. Nor did the crowds of people thronging the streets we
marched through, sidewalks, steps, doors and windows, seem to think our
dusty line suffering by comparison, the many military looking men in
these throngs watching the soldierly swing of our marching column with
manifest though silent approval. And the Eleventh, with its one-armed
Colonel riding at its head, its bullet tattered banners floating above
it, and its men of '61, '62, '63, and '64 now welded by association,
discipline and common danger into a compact if conglomerate mass,
attracted no little attention as it kept step to the audacious
declarations of its band--"That in Dixies land it took its stand to
live and die in Dixies land." "Yes," drawled one ex-confederate officer
to another, "they say this regiment was in the advance at Fair Oaks,
McClellan's old boys; none better." We went into camp in a grove back
of the city. Here we remained for several months, doing such duty as
was necessary in the militarily occupied city. From Richmond the "'62"
men took their departure for Maine, the three years they had enlisted
for having expired. The company was now officered by W. H. H. Frye as
Captain, Nelson H. Norris as First Lieutenant, Lieutenant Perkins had
become Captain of K, Lieutenant Young First Lieutenant of A, and First
Sergeant Keene was made Second Lieutenant of H, a richly deserved
honor, for there was no better soldier in the regiment than Josiah F.
Keene. This reduced the "original members" remaining with the company
to First Sergeant McGraw, Corporal Annis, Privates Day, Dunifer and
Longley. The remainder of the company, now that the "'62" men were
gone, being made up of the men of '63, who had joined the regiment
at Gloucester Point, in April, 1864, and of the ones who had joined
in the fall of 1864. On the 24th of November we were moved to
Fredericksburg, the headquarters of the military department known as
that of Northeastern Virginia, then commanded by Brigadier-General
Harris, but soon by Colonel Hill, for some time now Brevet
Brigadier-General Hill. From here the companies were scattered through
the department, D going to Northumberland County in what was called the
sub-district of Essex. In January, 1866, the companies assembled at
Fredericksburg to go to City Point, where we were formally mustered
out on the 2d of February, but we retained our company and regimental
organization until we reached Augusta, where on the 10th day of
February we were paid off, and Old Company D broke ranks for the last
time.
_The 26 in service at Muster-out of Regiment were_:
CHARLES SELLMER, Capt. Co. B.
ALBERT MAXFIELD, Capt. Co. H.
ELLERY D. PERKINS, Capt. Co. K.
WM. H. H. FRYE, Capt. Co. D.
ROBERT BRADY, JR., 1st Lieut. Co. I.
NELSON H. NORRIS, 1st Lieut. Co. D.
JUDSON L. YOUNG, 1st Lieut. Co. A.
JOSIAH F. KEENE, 2d Lieut. Co. H.
TIMOTHY MCGRAW, 1st Sergt.
STEPHEN MUDGETT, Sergt.
DANIEL W. WOODBURY, Sergt.
JOHN DEACON, Sergt.
FRANK E. YOUNG, Sergt.
JOTHAM S. ANNIS, Corporal.
ANDREW J. MUDGETT, Corporal.
JAMES E. DOW, Corporal.
FREDERICK ARNOLD, Private.
RUEL C. BURGESS, Private.
JOHN W. DAY, Private.
PRINCE E. DUNIFER, Private.
ALEXANDER B. DYER, Private.
HERVEY B. JOHNSON, Private.
LEONARD C. JUDKINS, Private.
JOHN LONGLEY, Private.
DENNIS TEHAN, Private.
JOSEPH VANDENBOSCH, Private.
1861 ROSTER OF COMPANY "D," ELEVENTH REGIMENT, 1890
MAINE INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS.
+_See Personal Sketch._
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AGE. ENTERED SERVICE.
LEFT SERVICE. HOW LEFT SERVICE.
RESIDENCE WHEN ENLISTED. FINAL RECORD OR P O. ADDRESS, 1890.
REMARKS.
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