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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 ...
Brig. Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a Bowdoin College professor who became one of the great heroes of the Civil War, died on this day in history, Feb. 24, 1914.
Joshua Chamberlain is, perhaps, Maine's favorite son. A hero of the Battle of Gettysburg, his 20th Maine regiment helped turn the tide of the Civil War. At the Joshua Chamberlain Museum in ...
I know how to learn. Those were the exact words that Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain used in his solicitation to form a regiment of Maine volunteers to serve the cause of the Union in 1862. Abraham ...
I can understand how Griffin Sherry, the writer of “The Ballad of the 20th Maine,” wanted to write about a foot soldier from Maine in the Battle of Gettysburg rather than hero Gen. Joshua ...
The 38-year-old history buff is on a mission to memorialize a Civil War hero, General Joshua Chamberlain. "He got shot through the pelvis and it was in such a way that it debilitated him for the ...
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 ...
Former Maine Governor Joshua Chamberlain was called to Augusta in 1880 after there was a dispute about who was the newly-elected governor. To stream WKYC on your phone, you need the WKYC app.
July 2, 1863: Col. Joshua Chamberlain (1828-1914) of Brunswick, while suffering from malaria and dysentery, successfully leads the 20th Maine Regiment in fending off a Confederate attack by Col ...
BREWER, Maine (WABI) - Brewer relished in its local history Saturday as they celebrated the 25th anniversary of Chamberlain Freedom Park. The park was dedicated to General Joshua Chamberlain, a ...
BRUNSWICK, Maine — Historian John J. Pullen, whose accounts of the Civil War spurred interest in Gen. Joshua Chamberlain, died Tuesday at his home. He was 89. A former newspaper reporter who ...
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