APRIL FOR THE UNION HEROS. 1/8: 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 HEROS. 1/8: 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.

1863 BREASTWORKS AT LITTLE ROUND TOP

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1:01.3	It is the winter of 1848, Brunswick, Maine, Bowden College.
1:08.0	A young man, his name is Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, called Lawrence, stands before the faculty.
1:11.2	The test is to enter Bowden late.
1:12.6	This is the second term.
1:15.6	And he's prepared for this all his life.
1:18.6	I welcome Ronald White.
1:23.0	He's the author of a new biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain,
1:25.0	entitled On Great Fields,
1:30.3	The Life and Unlikly Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, called Lawrence.
1:36.4	Ron, a very good evening to you. Thank you very much and congratulations. That moment,
1:43.3	Lawrence was standing before a faculty. He could only dream of being a member of the Bowden College.
1:45.5	I think there were more than 100 students at the time. There were eight faculty members. What is it that they were asking him to do? How did he
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