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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

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born

September 08, 1828 in Brewer, Maine, The United States

died

March 24, 1914

gender

male

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Biographies & Memoirs, History

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Chamberlain was a college professor at Bowdoin College before the U.S. Civil War. When the faculty refused him permission for a leave of absense so that he could enlist he took a sabbatical and enlisted anyway.

He played a Key role in the Battle of Gettysburg as depicted in Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel about Gettysburg, The Killer Angels, and the movie based on that novel, Gettysburg (in which Chamberlain was played by actor Jeff Daniels, who repeated that role in the Gods and Generals prequel).

Chamberlain was later seriously wounded in the war and was propted to General but survived and went on to become governor of Maine and President of Bowdoin College where he was proud to say that he eventually taught every...more

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Books by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Average rating: 4.07 · 298 ratings · 24 reviews · 13 distinct works

	The Passing of Armies: An Account Of The Final Campaign Of The Army Of The Potomac 4.02 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1985 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Through Blood and Fire at Gettysburg: General Joshua L. Chamberlain and the 20th Maine 4.00 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Bayonet! Forward: My Civil War Reminiscences 4.13 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Grand Old Man of Maine: Selected Letters, 1865-1914 by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Jeremiah E. Goulka (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: Joshua Chamberlain's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Charles River Editors 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Abraham Lincoln Seen from the Field in the War for the Union 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Civil War Regiments from Maine, 1861-1865 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003	My rating:
	Universities and Their Sons; History, Influence and Characteristics of American Universities, with Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Alumni and R by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, William Roscoe Thayer, Charles Henry Smith 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	University of Pennsylvania; Its History, Influence, Equipment and Characteristics; With Biographical Sketches and Ports. of Founders, Benefactors, Off by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Edward Potts Cheyney, Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Ceremonies in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, Philadelphia, February 12, 1909 by Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United S Commandery, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, John Page Nicholson 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:

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Quotes by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

“In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls… generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.”
― Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

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“I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest — so sweetly and so surely.”
― Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

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“But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of God, marred by the hand of man and must we say in the name of God? And where is the reckoning for such things? And who is answerable? One might almost shrink from the sound of his own voice, which had launched into the palpitating air words of order- do we call it? - fraught with such ruin. Was it God's command we heard or His forgiveness we must forever implore?”
― Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

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