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Continuing with Ronald White, the author of the new book on Great Fields,

The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain,

a scholar, a professor, a gifted man with the Bible or with languages, nine languages,

an esteemed professor at Bowdoin College has gone to war and fought bravely and stubbornly for throughout the

conflict right to Appamatics Courthouse, he's now come home.

He's come home with a very bad wound, a wound that will weaken him the rest of his life.

However, there is a task before him that he takes up not naturally but because he's drafted

into it.

He's not the only hero of Maine, but he's certainly a prominent one, and he begins right away with something that is part of his gift.

He begins to make speeches to public gatherings about what he saw in the war.

And Ron, thank you very much.

I have note that the first speech he made

about Gettysburg and what happened that day was

1865 is that correct who was he speaking that that's correct he began to

speak to various towns in Maine and quickly to various veterans organizations.

And let's remember, when he came to Bowdoin College as a student,

he was a stammer.

He was a stutterer.

And ultimately he would be solved that problem and become professor of rhetoric at Bowden College.

So now I argue that he becomes will become the foremost speaker after the Civil War about the meaning of the Union and the meaning of

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