In the Hands of Providence Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War

Name: In the Hands of Providence Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War
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ISBN: 9780807849804

ISBN-10: 0807849804

ISBN-13: 9780807849804

Edition: 2001

Authors: Alice Rains Trulock, Alan T. Nolan

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This remarkable biography traces the life and times of Joshua L. Chamberlain, the professor-turned-soldier who led the Twentieth Maine Regiment to glory at Gettysburg, earned a battlefield promotion to brigadier general from Ulysses S. Grant at Petersburg, and was wounded six times during the course of the Civil War. Chosen to accept the formal Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Chamberlain endeared himself to succeeding generations with his unforgettable salutation of Robert E. Lee's vanquished army. After the war, he went on to serve four terms as governor of his home state of Maine and later became president of Bowdoin College. He wrote prolifically about the war, including The Passing…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/17/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.32" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

The late Alice Rains Trulock was a retired personnel manager and politician in Indianapolis, Indiana.



Foreword



Preface


Prologue. 1913



The Union Forever, Hurrah Boys, Hurrah!



What Manner of Men We Will Be



The Twentieth Maine



Death-Gardens, Haunted by Glorious Ghosts



Gettysburg: To the Limits of the Soul's Ideal



The Country Would Not Stand It, If They Knew



In the Hands of Providence



Soul of the Lion



Forward to the Nation's Second Birth



The Passing of the Armies



And Other Songs in Other Keys


Epilogue. 1913 Revisited


Appendix


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index