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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1828 ? 1914
Photo Credit: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Collection, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library
- Known For: General, Union Army ? Hero of Little Round Top, Gettysburg; Governor of Maine
- Maine Connection: Bowdoin College professor; Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry; Governor of Maine, 1866-1870; President, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 1871-1883
Resources
Selected Books by Chamberlain
- “Bayonet! Forward”: My Civil War Reminiscences [by] Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1994.
Selected Books about Chamberlain
- Joshua Chamberlain: the Soldier and the Man by Edward G. Longacre, 1999.
- Fanny and Joshua: the Enigmatic Lives of Frances Caroline Adams and Joshua by Diane Monroe Smith, 1999
- Lawrence Chamberlain by Diane Monroe Smith, 1999.
- Joshua Chamberlain: a Hero’s Life and Legacy by John J. Pullen, c1999.