Grand Old Man of Maine

Best known as the hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg and the commanding officer of the troops who accepted the Confederates'' surrender at Appomattox, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828–1914) has become one of the most famous and most studied figures of Civil War history. After the war, he went on to serve as governor of Maine and president of Bowdoin College. The first collection of his postwa...