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APRIL FOR THE UNION HEROES. 5/8: On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White (Author)

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🗓️ 13 April 2025

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APRIL FOR THE UNION HEROES.   5/8: On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain  by  Ronald C. White  (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Fields-Unlikely-Lawrence-Chamberlain/dp/0525510087/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1707433634&sr=1-1

Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North’s greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round Top, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate charge down a rocky slope that routed the Confederate attackers. Despite being wounded at Petersburg—and told by two surgeons he would die—Chamberlain survived the war, going on to be elected governor of Maine four times and serve as president of Bowdoin College.

1865 RICHMOND BURNED

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

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The Life and Unlikly Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain,

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

1:13.7

professor at Bowden College has gone to war and fought bravely and stubbornly for throughout the

1:22.0

conflict right to Appomattox Courthouse. He's now come home. He's come home with a very bad wound, a wound that will

1:29.8

weaken him the rest of his life. However, there is a task before him that he takes up, not

1:39.3

naturally, but because he's drafted into it. He's not the only hero of Maine, but he's certainly a prominent one.

1:47.4

And he begins right away with something that is part of his gift. He begins to make speeches

1:53.4

to public gatherings about what he saw in the war. And Ron, thank you very much. I have note that the first speech he

2:05.7

made about Gettysburg, and what happened that day was 1865. Is that correct? Who was he speaking to?

2:11.4

That's correct. He began to speak to various towns in Maine and quickly to various veterans organizations.

2:18.5

And let's remember, when he came to Bowden College as a student, he was a stammerer.

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