Joshua Chamberlain: From Stuttering Child to Civil War Hero to Polyglot Governor of Maine

Published: Nov. 16, 2023, 11 a.m.

Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred...