Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
1828-1914
Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry
Brigadier General, U.S. Volunteers
Brevet Major General, U.S. Volunteers
Congressional Medal of Honor
Governor of Maine, 1866-1870
President, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 1871-1883
American Commissioner, Universal Exposition at Paris, 1871
Need we say more? If you insist, we will say some more things about General Chamberlain when we get around to it. Meanwhile, here is part of a letter he wrote to the Adjutant General from Naval Academy Hospital in Annapolis, where he was recovering from the terrible wounds he received on June 18, 1864.
Transcribed copy of letter.
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