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CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 819 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHAMBERLAIN, See also:JOSHUA See also:LAWRENCE (1828– ) , See also:American soldier and educationalist, was See also:born at See also:Brewer, See also:Maine, on the 8th of See also:September 1828. He graduated at See also:Bowdoin See also:College in 1852, and at the See also:Bangor Theological See also:Seminary in 1855, and was successively See also:tutor in See also:logic and natural See also:theology (1855–1856), See also:professor of See also:rhetoric and See also:oratory (1856-1861), and professor of See also:modern See also:languages (1861–1865), at Bowdoin. In 1862 he entered the Federal See also:army as See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel of the loth Maine See also:Infantry. His military career was marked by See also:great See also:personal bravery and See also:energy and intrepidity as a See also:leader. He was six times wounded, and participated in all the important battles in the See also:East from See also:Antietam onwards, including Fredericks-See also:burg, See also:Chancellorsville, See also:Gettysburg, the See also:Wilderness, See also:Cold Harbor, See also:Petersburg and Five Forks. For his conduct at Petersburg, where he was severely wounded, he was promoted to be brigadier-See also:general of See also:volunteers. He was breveted See also:major-general of volunteers on the 29th of See also:March 1865, and led the Federal advance in the final operations against General R. E. See also:Lee. In 1893 he received a Congressional See also:medal of See also:honour " for daring heroism and great tenacity in holding his position on the Little See also:Round See also:Top and carrying the advance position on the Great Round Top at the See also:Battle of Gettysburg." After the See also:war he was again professor of rhetoric and oratory at Bowdoin in 1865–1866, and in 1867–187o was See also:governor of Maine, having been elected as a Republican. From 1871 to 1883 he was See also:president of Bowdoin College, and during 1874–1879 was professor of See also:mental and moral See also:philosophy also. Appointed in 188o by Alonzo Garcelon, the retiring governor, to protect the See also:property and institutions of the See also:state until a new governor should be duly qualified, and acting as major-general of the state See also:militia, Chamberlain did much to avert possible See also:civil war, at a See also:time of great See also:political excitement and See also:bitter See also:partisan feeling.

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History.) In 1883–1885 he was a lecturer on political See also:science and public See also:law at Bowdoin, and in 1900 became surveyor of customs for the See also:district of See also:Portland, Maine. He published Maine, Her See also:Place in History (1877), and edited See also:Universities and Their Sons (6 vols., 1898).

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