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🗓️ 11 January 2026
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Guest: Ronald White. After the war, Chamberlain became a celebrated orator, using his rhetorical skills to preach reconciliation between North and South. Drafted by Republicans, he served four terms as Governor of Maine, focusing on economic reconstruction and railroad expansion. However, his private life was marred by constant pain from his internal war wounds; he often had to work lying down and could not sit erect. This physical suffering, combined with his absences, strained his marriage to Fanny, who struggled with depression and the isolation of their life during his political years.
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| 0:50.9 | Continuing with Ronald White, |
| 0:53.3 | the author of the new book on Great Fields, |
| 0:56.6 | The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, |
| 1:04.5 | a scholar, a professor, a gifted man with the Bible or with languages, nine languages, |
| 1:14.9 | an esteemed professor at Bowden College has gone to war and fought bravely and stubbornly for throughout the conflict right to Appomattox Courthouse, he's now come home. He's come home with a very bad wound, |
| 1:20.8 | a wound that will weaken him the rest of his life. However, there is a task before him that he takes up, not naturally, |
| 1:32.1 | but because he's drafted into it. He's not the only hero of Maine, but he's certainly a prominent one. |
| 1:39.4 | And he begins right away with something that is part of his gift. He begins to make speeches to public |
| 1:47.5 | gatherings about what he saw in the war. And Ron, thank you very much. I have note that the first |
| 1:57.2 | speech he made about Gettysburg and and what happened that day, was 1865. |
| 2:01.1 | Is that correct? |
| 2:01.7 | Who was he speaking to? |
| 2:03.3 | That's correct. |
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