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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 245. Not illustrated. Chapters: Bates College Faculty, Bowdoin College Faculty, Colby College Faculty, University of Maine Faculty, Joshua Chamberlain, William Cohen, Alan Shulman, Richard Ford, George Trumbull Ladd, Annie Finch, Burton Hatlen, Angus King, Wesley Mcnair, Caroline Duby Glassman, Jeffrey Gramlich, William Pope.l, Clark G. Reynolds, Edward D. Ives, Fred D'aguiar, Alonzo Garcelon, Shara Mccallum, Betsy Sholl, Jeffrey Harrison, Louis O. Coxe, William H. Zimmerli, Adrian Blevins, Adam Walsh, Aviva Chomsky, Richard Russo, Rex Warner, Henry Pogorzelski, William Trufant Foster, Charles Abiathar White, Debra Spark, Charles Martin, Paul Franco, Ira Sadoff, Porter H. Dale, George Abbe, Frank Glazer, Jody Diamond, Judith A. Ramaley, Albion Woodbury Small, Roswell Dwight Hitchcock, Charles Beitz, Nathan Smith, Anthony Walton, Howard Eves, Edward Grant, George C. Chase, Thomas Snow, Steve Hochstadt, Amos Nourse, Margot Livesey, Stephen Minot, David Kolb, Calvin Ellis Stowe, George Lincoln Goodale, Andrews Norton, John Bisbee, Joseph E. Johnson, Lawrence Sargent Hall, Mike Worboys, John Jay Butler, Charles Howard Mcilwain, Richard E. Morgan, Lawrence Lee Pelletier, Jere Abbott, Douglas Hodgkin, Margaret Creighton, Clayton Hare, Parker Cleaveland, Roy Ridley, Steven Dillon, Loring Danforth, Jonathan Stanton, Elliott Schwartz. Excerpt: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (September 8, 1828 February 24, 1914) was an American college professor from the State of Maine, who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army. Although having no earlier education in military strategies, he became a highly respected and decorated Union officer, reaching the rank of brigadier general (and brevet major general). For his gallantry at Gettysburg, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. He was given the honor of commanding the Union troops a...