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Book now at the podcast show London.com. I'm John Batchel with the author Ronald White. His new book is On Great Fields, Life and Unlikeful Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a professor of Bowden College, a man who has nine languages and a wife and two children, and he's now semi-commanding the 20th Maine, a volunteer regiment, infantry, and they're following the Army of the Potomac, the Battle of Antietam in Pennsylvania.

This is 62, late 62, and what we have here is a man who wants to get involved.

But because they're not called upon that day, they're part of the wing that is not thrown into the battle, I believe the Fifth Corps.

He watches it from a hill. What does he make of it, Rod?

He's held in reserve, but he sees the terror of war, the incredible casualties simply within one day.

He doesn't even want to quite tell Fannie how awful war is, but he begins to understand

that their maybe romantic vision of what they could do is now confronting reality.

General Hooker rides by, and he exchanges words with it. What does he tell the general?

Well, he tells the general that the strategy was not really very effective, that they should have done it differently.

And you should have put us in. So, okay. We go to Fredericksburg, and now his regiment, which is not blooded yet, as he understood it.

This is December of 62, and the frontal assault on the

Lee's forces is a massacre. Where is 20th Maine in that assault? Well, the 20th Maine is sort of caught

in the middle of this, not really at the front, but casualties are all

around them overnight in the freezing cold. He's actually sleeping literally on the dead body

of a Confederate soldier, so now the reality of war does come home to the 20th of Maine.

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