Dexter W. True of Turner, Maine, enlisted at age 23 in Company I, 2nd Maine Cavalry, on December 22, 1863. He was promoted to Corporal and then to Sergeant in 1865 and was mustered out on December 6, 1865. His wife, Celestia, died in 1869 at 23, and he died on November 23, 1876. They are buried in the Twin Bridges Cemetery in Livermore.