Enter author Dennis A. Rasbach, who argues in his recent book, “Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Petersburg Campaign,” that the celebrated hero actually fell a mile from where he thought he ...

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 ...

An academic by training, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain set aside theology for the art of war, fighting from Antietam to Appomattox. Despite being wounded four times, Chamberlain returned to active ...

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 ...

Learn more. I purchased an amazing new book entitled “On Great Fields, The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain,” by Ronald C. White. The bookstore on the campus of Bowdoin ...

Oliver Otis Howard, Civil War general; recipient of the Medal of Honor; commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau; among the founders of Howard University (1850) Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Civil War ...