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Joshua Chamberlain: A Hero's Life and Legacy
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Joshua Chamberlain: A Hero's Life and Legacy (1999) (edit title/settings)

by John J. Pullen (?) (edit contributors)

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* 8-page b/w photo section * 5 x 8 * Praise for John Pullen's classic, The Twentieth Maine : ". . . this comes as near reliving the Civil War as anyone in the twentieth century is likely to get." -- Boston Sunday Herald "Mr. Pullen . . . has gone to the letters, diaries, and... read more

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For people who have not heard the story of the fight at Little Round Top on the Gettysburg battlefield-and today there aren't many of these among readers of Civil War literature-it should be stated that it was here, late on July 2, 1863, that Joshua L. Chamberlain arose from the clouds of gunsmoke into the light of fame.

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Prologue
One - A Very Perfect Knight
Two - The Reluctant Republican
Three - Dealing With Demon Rum
Four - The Hanging of Clifton Harris
Five - Maine As Maine Should Be
Six - Reveille for Bowdoin
Seven - Mutiny of the Bowdoin Cadets
Eight - Maine on the Brink of Civil War
Nine - Another Round Top
Ten - Family Fortunes
Eleven - Echoes of Martial Glory
Twelve - A Battle Remembered
Thirteen - "You've Done Enough at Gettysburg"
Fourteen - Fame Returns
Fifteen -Recall to Service
Sixteen - Something Abides
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Stackpole Books
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Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0811708861
Page Count: 216

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