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Author White, Ronald C. (Ronald Cedric), 1939- author.

Title On great fields : the life and unlikely heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain / Ronald C. White.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2023]
©2023

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Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY CHAMBERLAIN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO CHAMBERLAIN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 CHAMBERLAIN, JOS    DUE 12-11-24
 Southington Library - Adult  B CHAMBERLAIN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B CHAMBERLAIN JOSHUA W    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xix, 483 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-449) and index.
Contents Formation, 1828 to 1855 -- Professor, 1855 to 1862 -- Soldier, 1862 to 1865 -- Leader, 1866 to 1883 -- Interpreter, 1883-1914.
Summary "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 definitive, cradle-to-death biography of General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, from his upbringing in rural Maine to his tenacious, empathetic military leadership and his influential post-war 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?"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 1828-1914.
Generals -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.
United States. Army. Corps, 5th (1862-1865)
Brewer (Me.) -- Biography.
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 1828-1914. (OCoLC)fst00032472
United States. Army. Corps, 5th (1862-1865) (OCoLC)fst00649392
Generals. (OCoLC)fst00939841
Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
Regimental histories. (OCoLC)fst01354209
Maine -- Brewer. (OCoLC)fst01217825
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
Chronological Term 1861-1865
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Life and unlikely heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Other Form: Online version: White, Ronald C. (Ronald Cedric), 1939- On great fields. First edition New York : Random House, [2023] 9780525510093 (DLC) 2023008049
ISBN 9780525510086 (hardback)
0525510087 (hardback)
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