Joshua Chamberlain

100 years after the founding of the nation, Joshua Chamberlain delivered a speech at the centennial celebration in Philadelphia. Chamberlain was representing Maine at the Centennial and, at the time he gave the speech, he was a notable Mainer and a recognized patriot. Bowdoin college professor, d...

Joshua Chamberlain has become a pop culture icon and his regiment is now the most famous small military unit in American history. A major focus of The Killer Angels, the largest selling Civil War novel of all time, save Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and two major motion pictures, “Gettysburg” and “Gods and ...