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    Joshua Chamberlain

    American military officer, professor, and 32nd Governor of Maine

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  1. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (born Lawrence Joshua Chamberlain, September 8, 1828 – February 24, 1914) [1] [2] was an American college professor from Maine who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army. He became a highly respected and decorated Union officer, reaching the rank of brigadier general (and brevet major ...

  2. Sep 8, 2015 · Joshua Chamberlain was born in 1828 in Brewer, Maine. He is best known for the courage he showed as colonel of the 20th Maine regiment that fought heroically in the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 ...

  3. Jan 12, 2024 · Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was born on September 8, 1828, in Brewer, Maine. He was the first of five children of Joshua and Sarah (Brastow) Chamberlain. Chamberlain came from a distinguished military ancestry; his great-grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War; his grandfather fought in the War of 1812; and his father served in the Maine ...

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  4. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Date of Birth - Death September 8, 1828 - February 24, 1914. A veritable icon of Civil War legend, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is best known for his heroic participation in the Battle of Gettysburg. Chamberlain and his regiment, the 20th Maine Infantry, gained notoriety for their desperate bayonet charge down Little ...

  5. Aug 24, 2020 · Fifty years after being shot, in 1914, Chamberlain died of another urosepsis episode, making him one of the last Civil War veterans to die of complications from war wounds. Bullet which wounded Chamberlain at Petersburg. Author photo from Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum in Brunswick, ME. Today we take catheterization for granted as a common procedure.

  6. May 27, 2023 · When Joshua Chamberlain died on Feb. 24, 1914, at the age of 85, his cause of death was attributed to the wounds he’d suffered during the war. That made him the last Civil War veteran to die of war-related wounds, according to the Department of Defense. But Chamberlain’s story didn’t end there.

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  8. Joshua L. Chamberlain. A Brief Biography: 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 ...

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