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. I purchased an amazing new book entitled “On Great Fields, The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain,” by Ronald C. White. The bookstore on the campus of Bowdoin ...

Oliver Otis Howard, Civil War general; recipient of the Medal of Honor; commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau; among the founders of Howard University (1850) Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Civil War ...