On the eve of anniversaries of the Declaration and the Battle of Gettysburg, it’s time to consider connections between the wars in York County.

Around 4:00 p.m., Union positions north and west of Gettysburg broke. Federal troops retreated through town to Cemetery Hill and Culp’s Hill, forming a fishhook-shaped line along Cemetery Ridge.

Of our profession? Lately I have been thinking about Joshua Chamberlain, the Bowdoin professor-turned-Union army officer who led the 20th Maine Volunteers during the Civil War (and eventually ...

Lt. Colonel Joshua Chamberlain – later to be memorialized as the hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg with his 20th Maine – was among the thousands pinned down by Rebel sharpshooters ...

LATE IN THE AFTERNOON OF JULY 2ND, 1863, IN GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, OUT OF AMMUNITION, UNDER ATTACK IN ORDER TO DEFEND A VITAL UNION HILLTOP, COLONEL JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN HAD HIS 20TH MAINE ...

“It descended in his Harpswell family and was repurposed for the Civil War by Andrew Alexander who served in the 20th Maine Regiment — led by none other than Joshua Chamberlain. It’s quite a ...

“It descended in his Harpswell family and was repurposed for the Civil War by Andrew Alexander, who served in the 20th Maine Regiment — led by none other than Joshua Chamberlain. It’s quite ...

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain determined that Little Round ... If the Confederates dislodged Chamberlain and the 20th Maine Infantry, they would be able to attack the Union Army from the rear.

Joshua L. Chamberlain officially accepted the ... earned Chamberlain and the 20th Maine Regiment legendary fame and garnered Chamberlain the Medal of Honor. By 1867, Chamberlain had returned ...

Walnut St. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge William F.B. Vodrey will present the program “Joshua Lawrence ... of seven languages, Chamberlain, colonel of the 20th Maine and a hero of ...

Pullen’s saga, which became a best seller, told the tale of Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine from their boot camp days at Camp Mason in South Portland through each battle they encountered ...