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.

Maine’s history is a rich blend of Indigenous heritage, colonial conflict, maritime industry, and cultural resilience. Once ...

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. He orchestrated an unlikely victory at Little Round Top, during the Battle of Gettysburg.Pejepscot History Center, a museum and exhibit space in downtown Brunswick ...

On Sunday morning, April 9, 1865, brevetted Major General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain ... gray columns march … [with] swaying battle flags.” Chamberlain mounted his horse and stood by the ...

At Gettysburg in July 1863, Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain determined that Little ... he was so seriously wounded at the Second Battle of Petersburg in 1864 that he was given a “deathbed ...

Joshua L. Chamberlain officially accepted the ... His legendary leadership on Little Round Top, at the Battle of Gettysburg, earned Chamberlain and the 20th Maine Regiment legendary fame ...

For example, consider the story of Colonel Joshua Chamberlain at the Battle of Gettysburg. Facing overwhelming odds, Chamberlain made the bold and unconventional decision to order “fix bayonets ...

But the gory three-day Battle of Gettysburg was finally over. Together with his brothers Tom and John, Joshua Chamberlain and the men of Maine now had to begin picking up the pieces of their ...

The epic tale of the bloodiest battle ever fought on American soil ... AROUND THE CREST OF LITTLE ROUND TOP, UNION COLONEL JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN AND HIS 20TH MAINE HOLD THE EXTREME LEFT FLANK ...

"A veritable icon of Civil War legend, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is best known for his heroic participation in the Battle of Gettysburg," writes the American Battlefield Trust. "Prolific and ...