24 February 1914 A.D. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin Passes—Famed Civil War Defender of Little Round Top, Gettyburg; Educator & President of Bowdoin College; 4-Term Governor of Maine
24 February 1914 A.D. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin Passes—Famed Civil War Defender of Little Round Top, Gettyburg; Educator & President of Bowdoin College; 4-Term Governor of Maine Editor. “ 1914 – Civil War soldier Joshua Chamberlain dies. ” This Day in U.S. Military History. N.d. https://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/february-24/ . Accessed 23 Feb 2015. 1914 – Civil War soldier Joshua Chamberlain dies. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was born Sept. 8, 1828, in Brewer, Maine, the eldest of five children. Facing the much larger city of Bangor across the Penobscot River, Brewer was in Chamberlain’s youth a small farming and ship-building community. Lawrence — as his family called him — worked on his father’s farm and, like many other promising young men of the time, had some experience of teaching school. Entering Bowdoin College in Brunswick in 1848, Chamberlain studied the traditional classical curriculum and showed particular skill at languages. He joined a “...