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 Appomattox in ...

BRUNSWICK On June 18, 1864, as the Civil War raged, then-Col. Joshua Chamberlain was severely wounded during an assault on Petersburg, Virginia. He narrowly survived, and went to his grave a half ...

What Ancona is very sure of, though, is that Joshua Chamberlain was devoted to a horse named Charlemagne. In the historical society’s archives, he found a short biography of the horse, written by the ...

Joshua Chamberlain died in 1914, at the age of 85. "I always thought the relevance of his story is that he came from such simple beginnings like all of us who were born and raised in Maine, ...

Dennis Rasbach talks about Union officer Joshua Chamberlain, who was wounded on June 18, 1864, during the Second Battle of Petersburg in Virginia. Mr. Rasbach reexamined primary sources and ...

Oct. 18—PORTLAND, Maine — It's a true story, told so many times it feels like sacred Maine mythology. A mild-mannered Maine college professor leads a band of citizen soldiers in a desperate ...

BRUNSWICK, Maine Civil War general Joshua Chamberlain's original Congressional Medal of Honor has arrived back in Brunswick. The medal Chamberlain received in 1893 for his heroism at Little Round ...

Video English: In 1889 veterans of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry gathered at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, with General Joshua L. Chamberlain, the officer who commanded them in battle. Chamberlain ...

The talk, "The Joshua Chamberlain You Didn't Know," took place during an event commemorating 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, ...