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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Petersburg Campaign

Author : Dennis Rasbach
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 161121307X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Petersburg Campaign written by Dennis Rasbach and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain earned the sobriquet “Lion of the Round Top” for his tactical brilliance leading his 20th Maine Infantry on the rocky wooded slopes of Little Round Top at on the evening of July 2, 1863. Promoted to brigade command, he was presumed mortally wounded during an assault at Petersburg on June 18, 1864, and bestowed a rare “on the spot” battlefield promotion to brigadier general. He survived, returned to the command in 1865, and participated in the surrender of Lee’s veterans at Appomattox. Chamberlain went to his grave a half-century later believing he was wounded while advancing alone from the future site of “Fort Hell.” His thrust, so he and others believed, was against the permanent fortifications of the Dimmock Line at Rives’ Salient, near the Jerusalem Plank Road, through a murderous flank fire from what was soon to become Confederate-held Fort Mahone. This narrative has been perpetuated by Chamberlain scholars and biographers over the past century. Chamberlain’s wounding and Rives’ Salient are now fused in the modern consciousness. This interpretation was given an additional mantle of authority with the erection of a Medal of Honor Recipient’s placard near South Crater Road by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources on November 8, 2014. In fact, author Dennis A. Rasbach argues, a careful review of the primary evidence left by Chamberlain and his contemporaries suggests that Chamberlain was mistaken regarding the larger context of the engagement in which he fought and fell. An overwhelming body of evidence, much of it derived from Chamberlain himself, demonstrates he actually attacked a different part of the Confederate line in the vicinity of an entirely different road. This part of the Petersburg campaign must now be rewritten to properly understand the important battle of June 18, 1864, and Chamberlain’s role in it. Richly illustrated with photos and original maps, and documented with extensive primary accounts, Rasbach’s Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Petersburg Campaign dispels a well-established Civil War myth, and sets the historical record straight.

The Passing of Armies

Author : Joshua Chamberlain
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307768120
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Passing of Armies written by Joshua Chamberlain and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A member of the Fifth Corps recounts the dramatic final acts of the Civil War, describing Sheridan's rise, Warren's fall, and the slow, inexorable stalking of Lee's forces across the battle-scarred countryside.

Chamberlain at Petersburg

Author : Diane Monroe Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781577470984
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Chamberlain at Petersburg written by Diane Monroe Smith and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Diane Monroe Smith introduces us to General Grant?s 1864 Virginia campaign and Chamberlain?s part in it. Bringing us into the trenches before Petersburg, the author then presents?The charge at Fort Hell?. Forgotten and unpublished,?The charge at Fort Hell? was written by Chamberlain and recounts his experiences in June of 1864, at Rives? Salient where he was seriously wounded. Considering the accomplishments and renown of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, both as soldier and author, it is fortuitous when one of his manuscripts is found. Smith also uses her ... research skills to thoroughly annotate Chamberlain?s narrative allowing the reader a complete understanding of the names and events mentioned"--Page 4 of cover.

Bayonet! Forward

Author : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Bayonet! Forward written by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given in memory of Lt. Charles Britton Hudson, CSA & Sgt. William Henry Harrison Edge, CSA by Eugene Edge III.

The Passing of the Armies

Author : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Passing of the Armies written by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In the Hands of Providence

Author : Alice Rains Trulock
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469615665
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book In the Hands of Providence written by Alice Rains Trulock and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deserve[s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review "[Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brilliant career. One can easily say that the definitive work on Joshua Chamberlain has now been done.--James Robertson, Richmond Times-Dispatch "An example of history as it should be written. The author combines exhaustive research with an engaging prose style to produce a compelling narrative which will interest scholars and Civil War buffs alike.--Journal of Military History "A solid biography. . . . It does full justice to an astonishing life.--Library Journal This remarkable biography traces the life and times of Joshua L. Chamberlain, the professor-turned-soldier who led the Twentieth Maine Regiment to glory at Gettysburg, earned a battlefield promotion to brigadier general from Ulysses S. Grant at Petersburg, and was wounded six times during the course of the Civil War. Chosen to accept the formal Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Chamberlain endeared himself to succeeding generations with his unforgettable salutation of Robert E. Lee's vanquished army. After the war, he went on to serve four terms as governor of his home state of Maine and later became president of Bowdoin College. He wrote prolifically about the war, including The Passing of the Armies, a classic account of the final campaign of the Army of the Potomac.

Joshua Chamberlain

Author : Edward G. Longacre
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786730161
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Joshua Chamberlain written by Edward G. Longacre and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joshua Chamberlain's exploits on Little Round Top have gained worldwide fame since the release of the film Gettysburg. Several books on Joshua Chamberlain have appeared in recent years, but most have been either hero-worship or have relied too heavily on his own account of his actions.Edward Longacre has joined the front ranks of American Civil War historians with The Cavalry at Gettysburg, General John Buford, and Custer and his Wolverines. Now he provides the first biography of Joshua Chamberlain that places his Civil War career in the full context of his life before and after the war, explores all aspects of his character, and draws on independent, and occasionally contradictory, eyewitness accounts of his battlefield actions. Previously unknown aspects of Chamberlain's experiences before the war and at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and Appomattox are presented to a wider audience here for the first time. Edward Longacre's meticulous research suggests that Chamberlain's own accounts of some of his actions can no longer be taken entirely at face value and that his character had a darker side, but the various flaws and failings of Chamberlain the real man as recounted here serve in the end to emphasize rather than diminish the remarkable nature of his accomplishments.

Through Blood & Fire

Author : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811717502
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Through Blood & Fire written by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places Chamberlain's known wartime writings within the larger context of the Civil War.

Joshua L. Chamberlain

Author : Thomas Desjardin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780964269
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Joshua L. Chamberlain written by Thomas Desjardin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-20 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His life is a remarkable story of perseverance, tragedy and triumph. From an insecure young man with a considerable stutter who grew up in a small town in eastern Maine, Joshua Chamberlain rose to become a major general, recipient of the Medal of Honor, Governor of Maine and President of Bowdoin College. His writings are among the most oft-quoted of all Civil War memoirs, and he has become a legendary, even mythical historical figure. In 1995, the National Civil War Museum acquired a collection of approximately three hundred letters written by or sent to Chamberlain from his college years in 1852 to his death in 1914. Author Thomas Desjardin puts Chamberlain's words in contemporary and historical context and uses this extraordinary collection of letters to reveal – for the first time – the full and remarkable life of Joshua Chamberlain

The Passing of the Armies

Author : Joshua Chamberlain
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497572188
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Passing of the Armies written by Joshua Chamberlain and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the 20th century, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's life and career remained mostly obscure, outside of dedicated scholars of the Battle of Gettysburg and alumni and students of Bowdoin College. Colonel Chamberlain had led the 20th Maine regiment at Gettysburg, holding the extreme left of the Union line on Little Round Top, and he continued to rise up the ranks toward the end of the war until he was commanding a brigade and present at the surrender ceremony of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. After the Civil War, Chamberlain served as Governor of Maine and President of Bowdoin College. Chamberlain had a respectable Civil War career and life, but he had been largely forgotten in the decades after the Civil War, with the focus on more influential commanding generals and their principal subordinates. Then a remarkable thing happened with the 1974 publication of Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels, a Pulitzer Prize winning historical fiction that focuses on the Battle of Gettysburg and its influential generals and leaders. In one fell swoop, Michael Shaara breathed life back into the reputations of men like John Buford and Joshua Chamberlain, cast as the Union heroes of Day 1 and Day 2 respectively that made victory at Gettysburg possible. In the novel, Chamberlain's regiment holds the high ground against a series of desperate Confederate charges, and when they ran out of gunpowder, Chamberlain ordered a brave bayonet charge that drove the Confederates in their front from the fight. With that, the Union's left flank was saved. Thanks to Shaara, Ken Burns' popular Civil War documentary prominently featured Chamberlain's involvement at Gettysburg, and when Shaara's novel was turned into the critically acclaimed 1993 movie Gettysburg, interest in Chamberlain and the 20th Maine swelled. Chamberlain's reputation and role in the Civil War had been completely revived, and the monument to the 20th Maine on Little Round Top became one of the premier tourist spots on the Gettysburg battlefield. Naturally, once more attention was focused on Chamberlain's record, historians started to scrutinize his service and post-war writings, leading to ensuing controversies over just what happened on Little Round Top on July 2, 1863. Furthermore, there still remains debate over Chamberlain's participation during the surrender ceremony of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. Part of that debate stems from the fact that Chamberlain wrote one of the most descriptive books about the last days of the Civil War, culminating with Lee surrendering to Grant at Appomattox, and what followed it. It's an invaluable resource for historians and anyone interested in the Civil War.

Joshua Chamberlain

Author : John J. Pullen
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811708869
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Joshua Chamberlain written by John J. Pullen and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pullen explores renowned military hero Joshua Chamberlain's later life through the lens of his Civil War experiences. 24 illustrations.

Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Columbia College (originally King's College) in the City of New York 1754-1888

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Columbia College (originally King's College) in the City of New York 1754-1888 written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Passing Of The Armies: An Account Of The Final Campaign Of The Army Of The Potomac,

Author : Major-General Joshua L. Chamberlain
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786251337
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The Passing Of The Armies: An Account Of The Final Campaign Of The Army Of The Potomac, written by Major-General Joshua L. Chamberlain and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities. “This is one of the finest accounts of a campaign penned by a Federal soldier. . . . A stellar work of Civil War history—a classic.—The Civil War in Books. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a Maine college professor who entered the Union Army in 1862. He fought with the Twentieth Maine at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his role at Little Round Top. In the campaigns described here, Chamberlain commanded a brigade in the Fifth Corps in the Army of the Potomac during the final days of the war. His eyewitness account takes us past Lee’s surrender to show the beginnings of Reconstruction.” - Print ed. Chamberlain had a most successful military career capped by being chosen to command the Union troops who were present when the Army of Northern Virginia lay down their arms. His account of the final Virginia campaign is superb. He was as great a writer as he was a fighter. - Albert Castel, Civil War Times Illustrated.

The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign

Author : A. Wilson Greene
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572336102
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign written by A. Wilson Greene and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Petersburg Campaign was what finally did it. After months of relentless conflict throughout 1864, the Confederate army led by General Robert E. Lee holed up in the Virginia city of Petersburg as Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's vastly superior forces lurked nearby. The brutal fighting that took place around the city during 1864 and into 1865 decimated both armies as Grant used his manpower advantage to repeatedly smash the Confederate lines, a tactic that eventually resulted in the decisive breakthrough that ultimately doomed the Confederacy. The breakthrough and the events that led up to it are the subject of A. Wilson Greene's groundbreaking book The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign, a significant revision of a much-praised work first published in 2000. Surprisingly, despite Petersburg's decisive importance to the war's outcome, the campaign has received scant attention from historians. Greene's book, with its incisive analysis and compelling narrative, changes this, offering readers a rich account of the personalities and strategies that shaped the final phase of the fighting. Greene's ultimate focus on the climatic engagements of April 2, 1865, the day that Confederate control of Richmond and Petersburg was effectively ended. The book tells this story from the perspectives of the two army groups that clashed on that day: the Union Sixth Corps and the Confederate Third Corps. But Greene does more than just recount the military tactics at Petersburg; he also connects the reader intimately with how the war affected society and spotlights the soldiers, both officers and enlisted men, whose experiences defined the outcome. Thanks to his extensive research and consultation of rare source materials, Greene gives readers a vibrant perspective on the campaign that broke the Confederate spirit once and for all. A. Wilson Greene is president of Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier near Petersburg, Virginia. He also has taught at Mary Washington College and worked for sixteen years with the National Park Service.

On Great Fields

Author : Ronald C. White
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525510095
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book On Great Fields written by Ronald C. White and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero. “A vital and vivid portrait of an unlikely military hero who played a key role in the preservation of the Union and therefore in the making of modern America.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of And There Was Light A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North’s greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round Top, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate charge down a rocky slope that routed the Confederate attackers. Despite being wounded at Petersburg—and told by two surgeons he would die—Chamberlain survived the war, going on to be elected governor of Maine four times and serve as president of Bowdoin College. How did a stuttering young boy come to be fluent in nine languages and even teach speech and rhetoric? How did a trained minister find his way to the battlefield? Award-winning historian Ronald C. White delves into these contradictions in this cradle-to-grave biography of General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, from his upbringing in rural Maine to his tenacious, empathetic military leadership and his influential postwar public service, exploring a question that still plagues so many veterans: How do you make a civilian life of meaning after having experienced the extreme highs and lows of war? Chamberlain is familiar to millions from Michael Shaara’s now-classic novel of the Civil War, The Killer Angels, and Ken Burns’s timeless miniseries The Civil War, but in this book, White captures the complex and inspiring man behind the hero. Heavily illustrated and featuring nine detailed maps, this gripping, impeccably researched portrait illuminates one of the most admired but least known figures in our nation’s bloodiest conflict.

Joshua L. Chamberlain

Author : Thomas A. Desjardin
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 1608932907
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Joshua L. Chamberlain written by Thomas A. Desjardin and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joshua Chamberlain is arguably the most well known figure in Maine history and this highly accessible biography provides a brief look at his life. Covering his early years to his time as a student at Bowdoin, the primary emphasis in on Chamberlain's military career and his heroic actions during the Civil War, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. After the war he served as governor of Maine and as president of his alma mater before his death in 1914. Filled with photos, maps, and illustrations, this concise history of a Maine icon is ideal for anyone with even just a passing interest in Maine or the Civil War.

To Gettysburg and Beyond

Author : Michael Golay
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book To Gettysburg and Beyond written by Michael Golay and published by Crown. This book was released on 1994 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-scale joint biography of two remarkable men of Gettysburg. Chamberlain, from rustic Maine beginnings, mastered the soldier's art and became one of the best of the Union's infantry commanders. Alexander, of the Georgia planter class, was one of the most brilliant officers of the Confederacy.