It's guy here with another episode of the History Unplugged Podcast.

Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine where he was a trained minister and

mild manor professor his colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union Army

but he was unteturn and later became known as one of the North's greatest heroes.

On the second day of Gettysburg after running out of ammunition at Little Roundtop, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate charge down a rocky slope, the ride of the Confederate attackers. Despite you 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 serving as a college president.

How did a stuttering young boy come to be fluent in nine languages and even teach speech and rhetoric,

how did the train minister fight his way to the battlefield?

To explore Chamberlain's fascinating stories today's guest Ronald White,

author of On Great Fields, The Life and Unlikely unlikely heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

We'll see him in this episode presented to all of his ideals, his tenacity, and also all of his

contradictions, and this is a great exploration of a remarkable person in the 19th century to help us understand the life and times of the Civil War.

Hope we enjoy this discussion with Ronald White.

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