Henry Carter Hull

Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states where he was born and raised. As Chamberlain, Jackson,...

Presents a comprehensive biography of Civil War General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain who commanded the Twentieth Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment and traces his life and career that included campaigns at Antietam, Fredericksburg, and his brilliant charge on Little Round Top at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863.