Albert Maxfield

Born on October 28, 1836, in Raymond, Maine, Albert Maxfield is remembered both as a Union officer and as a writer of Civil War history. He served in the 11th Maine Volunteer Infantry, rising from private to captain during the war.

Military records and memorial sources describe a steady series of promotions, a slight wound at New Market Roads in Virginia in October 1864, and his capture at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, before he was exchanged the following month. That long service seems to have shaped his writing, which focuses on preserving the memory of the regiment and the men who served in it.

Maxfield is best known as the primary author of The Story of One Regiment: The Eleventh Maine Infantry Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion (1896), along with the related regimental record Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry Volunteers. He died on May 23, 1923, in New York City. No clearly suitable portrait image could be confirmed from the sources reviewed, so no profile image is included.