In the hands of Providence : Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War /

Trulock, Alice Rains.

In the hands of Providence : Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War / by Alice Rains Trulock. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)1992. - 1 online resource (xxii, 569 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Foreword / 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. Alan T. Nolan --

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.



9781469615660


United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 20th (1862-1865)
United States. Army --Biography.


Generals--United States--Biography.


Electronic Books.

E467 / .I584 1992