Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a bookish professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College in Maine who became the Union's most celebrated combat hero of the Civil War, died on this day in history ...

Learn more. On Aug. 29, 1871, just two decades after his matriculation as a student, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain returned to Bowdoin College as its sixth president, and he had many plans to renew ...

At the war’s end, Brigadier General (and Bowdoin professor on leave from the College) Joshua Chamberlain [1852] oversaw the surrender of Confederate arms at Appomattox. Less than three months later, ...

The PHC also maintains the Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum. Bowdoin College - Maine's oldest -- was chartered in 1794 when Maine was still part of Massachusetts. One of its most famous alumni is ...

On April 9, 1865, the bloodiest conflict ever fought in the western hemisphere ended, and a Bowdoin man was at the center of the action. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the studious Brewer native who ...

Joshua L. Chamberlain scholarships are awarded to first-generation ... Chamberlain Scholarship funds may be used at any time you are enrolled at Bowdoin College. You can use the funds in any ...

Whew. Exhausting! Professor Guelzo will either soon be a one-year visiting professor of Joshua Chamberlain Studies (or some title) at Bowdoin College. Or he will be bombarded by boxes of ping-pong ...

Joshua L. Chamberlain officially accepted the ... In 1871, Chamberlain accepted the sixth presidency of Bowdoin College and served as the “United States Commissioner to the Exposition at ...

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered ...

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Maine's oldest college is keeping with tradition of ... President Franklin Pierce and Civil War hero and Maine Gov. Joshua Chamberlain. Degrees were awarded to 472 graduates from 45 states ...