By Ronald C. White
Being from Maine and my interest in history, I knew about Joshua Chamberlain who fought at Gettysburg with the 20th Maine regiment and defended Little Round Top so famously. He was depicted in Ken Burns documentary of the Civil War and also in Shaara’s Killer Angels book.
This author dug deeper into the life of Joshua Chamberlain from his upbringing in a religious family which gave insight to his values, to his time at Bowdoin College as a student, later as a professor, and after the war as the President of Bowdoin.
He also served as the governor of Maine for 4 years when the terms were 1 year. Chamberlain lived a full life and had many decisions to make along his career path, which nearly led him to be a minister having completed a few years of the Bangor Theological School. His passion was learning new things but he also was gifted at reading people which served him well in war as well as the rest of his life.
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