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 ...

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 ...

CHAMBERLAIN IS A RENOWNED FIGURE AT AT BOWDOIN IN BRUNSWICK IN MAINE, THROUGHOUT NEW ENGLAND, EVEN IN THE SOUTHERN STATES, THERE IS A LOT OF ADMIRATION FOR HIM. IRONIC SINCE JOSHUA LAWRENCE ...

Also, it has a legend: that General Joshua L. Chamberlain’s favorite horse is buried there. Charlemagne wasn’t just some pet horse. The Civil War hero’s beloved mount was a chestnut Morgan that ...

It’s a disgrace to the office once held by Union hero Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Maine governors rarely make national news. With the exceptions of Paul LePage (thanks to his notoriously big ...

Learn more. I would like to respond to your article “Author Event: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the Man Behind the Hero” about the May 9 event that was sponsored by the Old Bristol Historical ...