An academic by training, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain set aside theology for the art of war, fighting from Antietam to Appomattox. Despite being wounded four times, Chamberlain returned to active ...

Learn more. On Sunday morning, April 9, 1865, brevetted Major General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain stood in command of the 1st Brigade, 1st Division of the Fifth Corps, near the White Oak Road at ...