APRIL FOR THE UNION HEROES. 6/8: On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White (Author)

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APRIL FOR THE UNION HEROES. 6/8: On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White (Author)

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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.

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0:53.2	I'm John Batchew with Ron White, the author of On Great Fields, Life and Unlakely Har Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.
0:58.0	The heroism happened those battles in the Civil War,
1:04.2	but this is a way of looking at the recovery of America from the Civil War as best it can.
1:06.7	The governorship is not enough.
1:11.9	Chamberlain is now asked to come back to Bowden College as the president.
1:21.3	And I note that this is significant only because as a union hero, you would expect him not to go back to scholarship.
1:25.7	He can live on other opportunities in the government.
1:30.1	It's all dominated by Republicans. Let's go to the visit of his hero, Ulysses Grant. What's this? 1871. Why does Grant come to Maine? Grant comes to Maine to help promote a new
1:39.1	international railroad. And as he comes and stops in Brunswick, where Bowden College is located, he invites
1:46.4	Chamberman to go with him to the great celebration in Bangor. When the Civil War had ended,
1:52.5	and Chamberlain learned that Grant on a tour was in Portland, he invited him to come to Bowden,
1:59.6	and Bowden College gave to Grant an honorary degree.
2:04.5	So these two men's lives kind of intersect each other.
2:08.3	They respected each other at Petersburg when Grant, when Chamberlain was thought to be dead,
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