Albert Maxfield

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Albert Maxfield

b. 1836

Best known for preserving the story of Maine soldiers who fought in the Civil War, this veteran helped turn regimental memory into a detailed historical record. His work remains a useful window into the lived experience of the 11th Maine Infantry.

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Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry Volunteers With a Sketch of Its Services in the War of the Rebellion

Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry Volunteers With a Sketch of Its Services in the War of the Rebellion

by Albert Maxfield, Robert Brady

About the author

Born in 1836 or 1837, Albert Maxfield is credited as a co-author of Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry Volunteers, a late-19th-century history of his unit. Library and ebook records consistently identify him with that work, which he prepared with Robert Brady Jr.

Maxfield also served in the 11th Maine during the American Civil War. Archival and memorial records connect him with the regiment and describe his rise from private to captain, helping explain the firsthand knowledge behind his writing.

He is also linked to The Story of One Regiment, a broader history of the 11th Maine Infantry, where catalog records note his role in gathering material for the regiment’s statistical record. A surviving Civil War-era portrait of him is preserved by DigitalMaine.