Joshua Chamberlain, 20th Maine - After Gettysburg

[@PointofSpear]

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[@scottouellette9411]

I came home in 69 from Vietnam a change man.While many were grooving to the music at Woodstock I took a rode trip to Gettysburg all by myself. It was a very hot and humid august that year in 69 but I was use to the humidity growing up in New England and being in the jungles of Vietnan. Well any ways I hiked over to little round top around late afternoon and found a spot secluded from everyone with a fantastic view of the battlefield. I started to weep softly which was something I never did during my 2 tours of duty. From behind me I heared someone ask me if I was okay. I turned around and there was nobody there. I looked and listened as the sun was going down in the western sky I felt a rush of cool air float over me. It was very refreshing and at that very moment I realized that I was finally home.

[@johnhorne2012]

Seems like in time of strife that we are not alone,....even when we wish to be left alone,...there is always someone watching,...in a great way,....THANK YOU for YOUR SERVICE SIR!.............

[@jackswanson3039]

When I visited in 91, I came across a grave for of a sailor killed in the HMAS Melbourne and USS Evans collison in 1969.

[@jackbuckley7816]

Now that I'm retired, I've been wanting to move to Gettysburg but doesn't look like it's in the cards. The description of your experience there is very moving, very evocatively-written. Thank you for your service, sir, and best-wishes for the future.

[@thelastjohnwayne]

Scott I can never really know what you and all of your brothers went through in Vietnam. But I will always stand and support you and all of our Vets no matter what.

[@vinces4263]

First, thank you very much for your service to this great country. That day when you were sitting there you were not alone. God was there and I'm sure many souls of the men that fought in that battle were there with you as well.

[@patrickslevin6424]

Those were men of a different generation and completely different thoughts and minds....God how I wish they were here with us now.

[@alb7046]

We can learn from such men.

[@edvinjohnson5382]

You mean men who owned slaves

[@edvinjohnson5382]

@@alb7046 You mean men who owned slaves

[@robertverner7507]

I don’t think they’re that different

[@darcboy1398]

@@edvinjohnson5382 yes if we exclude every slave owner in history there will be nobody left that was the order of the day back when everybody of every race has been a slave to somebody at one point or another

[@steve8421]

I have visited the Gettysburg battlefield many times, walked it's many fields, followed the paths of it's many battles, including Pickett's charge to the Union artillery line at the climax of that charge to the spot where General Armistead fell mortally wounded. But the one place that revels up the most emotion in me is the rocky paths that lead to the top of Little Round Top and a tribute statue to the 20th Maine at the top. Here you can read paper notes (under) pebble stones left by passing visitors that offer tributes and thanks to Chamberlain and his men. Here I feel the soles of thoughs who fight there like no other place in Gettysburg. It is deeply haunting and reflective.

[@timd4709]

That’s because that story has been told. The more you learn and study, the more places like that you’ll find

[@darrellborland119]

@S R...powerful stuff. The younger generation needs to hear this past history, as an antidote to our current debacle. Thanks.

[@jeffdarnell7942]

Is Little Round Top ro the point that you can walk around on it? Or it it off limits?

[@jfnuyen]

In his writings, he (JLC) states he went back to Little Round Top several times and and, in a sense, it was a spiritual experience for him. One must remember that he was a spiritual man in the first place.

[@jeffdarnell7942]

Seriously though...if you had a spot on this planet, not to far away from where you live, that had the sheer sentimental effects on you, that this place had on him, wouldn't you go back often?? I might try to live there....specially knowing I'd lost many of the men in my Ranks, that looked to ME for answers. I've thought about it brother....rather intimately.

[@jfnuyen]

@@jeffdarnell7942 Yes, I would return very often. There is no doubt about this.

[@JMaxfield09]

Joshua Chamberlain was still alive 50 years after the battle at Little Round Top. By then, following military service, he had served 4 years as the governor of Maine and 12 years as president of Bowdoin College, his alma mater. Chamberlain had also suffered a bullet injury in his leg at the battle of Petersburg, VA in 1864; at that time, doctors considered it mortal, but he managed to survive. That said, the war wound still lingered, and complications thereof eventually did him in on February 24, 1914. Chamberlain was the last Civil War veteran to die as a result of wounds from the war and considered by some the last casualty of the war.

[@TheStapleGunKid]

I've always thought the most amazing thing Chamberlain did wasn't in the war, it was after it. Going on to live a full life and hold so many top-level jobs despite dealing with agonizing crippling pain a daily basis is by far a greater accomplishment than anything he ever did on the battlefields.

[@JaimeGarcia-pe7bj]

Wasn't he Governor of Maine 4 times. I read both Passing of the Armies by Gov. Chamberlain and Memoirs of a Co federated by COL E.P. Alexander. Chamberlin was a great man and great American.

[@TheStapleGunKid]

@@JaimeGarcia-pe7bj He served four 1-year terms as governor, so 4 years total (1866-1869)

[@JaimeGarcia-pe7bj]

@@TheStapleGunKid 1 year terms? I did not know that. Since seeing the movie I got a chance to read his, "Passing of the Armies." I visited Gettysburg Military Park and a docent elaborated upon his life. I am certainly glad that COL Chamberlain was on the right side.

[@TheStapleGunKid]

@@JaimeGarcia-pe7bj Yeah I was surprised to find out they were 1-year terms too. Like, why would a state have just 1-year terms for governor? I haven't been able to find anything on that. Chamberlain was on the right side, and it cost him dearly. Have you read the details of his war wounds? They are utterly horrendous. It makes me cringe just thinking about them. That's why I'm so impressed that he didn't give in the physical or mental trauma of war and went on to lead such an amazing life after the war.

[@haynes1776]

just walking on the exact geound ground that Chamberlain and the 20th Maine fought to protect the flank of the Union army at Little Round Top just bring shivers.

[@patrickslevin6424]

Too bad Col. Oates didn't realize what was waiting for him.......his men fought gallantly too.

[@TheWinterShadow]

Of all the personalities during the Civil War, Chamberlain symbolizes the best of what it means to be an American. I believe many years from now sociologist and historians will look back on the Civil War and single him out for his insight and belief and ideas of freedom.

[@eric5906]

+TheWinterShadow No he doesn't. You just know about him because he was in the movie Gettysburg. R E Lee was the greatest man from the War Between the States.

[@TheWinterShadow]

+eric5906 Robert E Lee? no he wasn't. point is everyone has their opinion.

[@Kravis63]

Something tells me his stance to fight to keep the institution of slavery will not be looked so kindly on by future generations. Lee while a good General, turned against his country and fought to keep people in bondage. Create any genital myth you want around him, facts are facts.

[@CBfrmcardiff]

Kravis63 Well, it all depends on the value systems of future generations. They might not hold with "patriotism" at all, or might not see why the Union was more his country than his "state". They might not " slavery " so evil and "freedom" so admirable. On the other hand, they might greatly value country and abhor slavery. Or they might place no value in Lee's peculiar qualities of politeness, reaonableness. Who knows?

[@danbytp]

eric5906 I'll put them both down as Great Americans of the North and South.

[@skudaarkaat1]

I've heard this story many, many times over the past years, but never seen it acted. WELL DONE!!! VERY WELL DONE!!! My Great, Great Grandpa McRee was with Barksdale, in the 21st Mississippi, at The Peach Orchard the same day as Chamberlain's defense of Little Round Top.

[@ironworker1365]

Lost 2 relatives at Gettysburg. Both killed on the 3rd day. At the stone wall angle were General Armistead’s men breached the wall.

[@redrust3]

A man who clearly deserved the Medal of Honor, that he was eventually awarded.

[@pnpdynamic9720]

I was at Gettysburg about a week ago. Sat on little Round Top on the rocks and I too watched the sun set. It's unforgettable.

[@daddo2413]

Valor and chivalry. I pray these qualities are not lost entirely in our great country.

[@sergeantmasson3669]

My great grandfather served under Chamberlain during the civil war.

[@jiveassturkey8849]

My 3x great grandfather served against him in the 15th Alabama on Little Round Top

[@gehmangang8006]

The fight for little roundtop by far brings me the most tears. Climbed to that 20th Maine spot 3 times now. Each time I just soak in the bravery of those who fought and died there. Brings shivers.

[@terwandersingh3605]

The man who made the difference which forever changed every thing.

[@rexlibris99]

On September 11, 1777, Captain Patrick Ferguson withdrew an order to his riflemen to pick off two Continental Army officers. He shouted at the tall, senior officer, who calmly rode on."I could have lodged half a dozen balls in or about him, before he was out of my reach," Ferguson recalled, "but it was not pleasant to fire at the back of an unoffending individual, who was acquitting himself very coolly of his duty-so I let him alone." That officer was most likely George washington.

[@georgewashington6225]

Yup and he died at kings mountain

[@gta2281]

@@georgewashington6225 Honor seems to be a long forgotten trait nowadays. It's my fervent hope that it has a resurgence, it is sorely needed..

[@indy_go_blue6048]

@@gta2281 Don't expect anything like it for at least another 4 years, if ever.

[@danielwong6468]

@@gta2281 Honor is well and good, but it has a rather diminished place in war. What Sherman did to the South was not honorable. No soldier in history ever looked at an enemy line and thought “We should send back half the army so we match us in strength.” In a life and death struggle fair fights are for suckers. That being said, in peace we have the luxury of morals.

[@ianturton6889]

Yes he had both Washington and probably Pulaski (by description of uniforms) in his sights. Thirty years later the 95th rifles would have shot them both from the saddle without hesitation because that was their mission. History turns on such small events.

[@joeambrosio7988]

Chamberlin embodied the citizen soldier during this horrific war. He did what had to been done and somehow found his valor among the rocks of Little Round Top. It was fortuitous that he lived so long after the conflict. I hope he experienced some measure of peace until his passing.

[@jenniferfrazen5268]

A professor from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me...he was so brave to do what he did, he belived in the Union and end of Slavery, to those who do not know the book Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was also written in Brunswick, Maine and was considered to be the spark that lit the fuse of the Civil War, the South had a way of life they wanted to see continued, Maryland was a Union state but many from Maryland also joined the Confederacy for personal reasons, they had slaves and planned on keeping them. Gettysburg was the costliest battle ever fought on American soil and without the 20th Maine things may have been very different, the Texans were close to taking Little Round Top, it was a close proximity fight and both sides lost so many lives. I still consider Lincoln the best U.S. President we have ever had and the Gettysburg address is and was the best 2 and 1/2 minute speech of all time...

[@johnfoster535]

Chamberlain, whose first name is biblical, had a life that seemed to be one of destiny. It was as if he were chosen....like Joshua in the bible....to achieve some great and unlikely military feat which would have major repercussions and effect. As a scholar and writer, it was fitting that his death on the battlefield did not occur. He completed a subsequent duty by writing about the war experience and what it meant. His " Passing of the Armies" is a spiritual work which honors the souls of those who fell and those who survived with the scars of war. We are all fortunate that he lived to tell his story.

[@kurtsherrick2066]

John Foster Being a Southern man and having three ancestors fight at Shiloh. Two for the South and One for the North. The South losing is the reason for the tyrannical central government which was given power by the states not the other way around. Maybe the Good Confederate's is responsible for the death of his fellow Soldiers. Forrest said it correctly. War is about killing and although I know in my heart God didn't intend on America to be split or the South would have won. God had work for America and that was spreading the Gospel threw the world and charity to the less fortunate. Am so proud to have roots from both sides of a war among friends and brothers should have never happened.

[@kurtsherrick2066]

@Leo Peridot Joshua was ordered by God to do those things. Also God told Joshua to pay some civilization for crossing their land. God told Joshua not to war with them because He gave that land to those people. Also God told Joshua at other places to let some of them get away because He had a plan for them. Don't put God into what Lincoln and Sherman, Sheridan did to Christians in the South. They are Gods Children. Both sides of that war prayed to the same God. The South didn't rebel against Washington DC. They wanted to leave in peace and get the Union Troops out of their territories. Not one state came to the Union knowing if things went bad for their state they would be forced to stay by a invasion of their state by a Federal Army. Lincoln didn't invade the South to free the slaves. You so smart maybe you can answer this question that History Professor's can't answer. Give me one piece of evidence that Lincoln loved the slaves and invaded the South to free the slaves. There isn't any. Their is plenty of evidence Lincoln went to war over Revenue. Lincoln twice was willing to sell the slaves out for Revenue. Lincoln invading the South to free the slaves is a lie. Any person that has studied the 35 years before the war knows that. It just the ignorant that they are fooling. And yes Nathan Bedford Forrest said War means killing and he had 31 confirmed kills in hand to hand combat. His tiny Cavalry and Infrantry captured more supplies and prisoners than any other General during the war on both sides. He is considered the greatest Cavalry General in History. He was a genius at topography. And you learned lies and pure slander from propaganda. Forrest is third in line for having the most Literature written about him than any other Civil War Figure only behind Lincoln and Robert E. Lee. The truth is in those books. Try reading one.

[@kurtsherrick2066]

@Leo Peridot You see you are lying. The Klan was started in Pulaski TN 300 miles away from Memphis where Forrest was building a Railroad between Memphis and Little Rock. Forrest was a Honorary Member. He showed up at a meeting and saw the organization was turning violent and Forrest told his men let's go home. Forrest had the Klan disbanded and he testified against the Klan in Congress. Forrest never rode around terrorizing anyone. Those are complete lies. I am telling the truth. And you know basically called me a terrorist by calling me the Taliban. Lincoln offered the South the Corwin Amendment. It was Legislation passed at the end of the Buchanan Administration to stop the other Southern States from Seceding. Limited I'm his First Inaugural Address said that he supported the Legislation. It was offered to the South two weeks before Beauregard fired on Ft. Sumter. If the Southern States would Ratify the Amendment it would have secured slavery in the Constitution as the original 13th Amendment. The South declined. Also Lincoln stated in the Original Emancipation Proclamation read on September 22,1862 if the Southern states would come back to the Union by January 1,1863 they could keep their slaves. Slaves would only be Emancipated in the states that continued to rebel. That is Historically Correct and if you can't take 2 minutes to Google this information it is you that is ignorant. I am not a lying man. And the things I said about the Bible is correct. You see the School of Lincoln hates people like me because I know my History and I know all about that bastard Lincoln.

[@sce2aux464]

His first name was Lawrence, he preferred to be called Lawrence, but "Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain" had a better meter to it.

[@charlesphillips1468]

"Fix bayonets. We will refuse the line!." - Col. Chamberlain, 20th Maine at Little Round Top.

[@logan32086]

I recently went to Gettysburg for the first time and that was one place I just had to go. I stood atop Little Round Top gazing over the battlefield. It was quiet, peaceful, now allowed to rest in peace after seeing 3 days of unimaginable bloodshed.

[@echobase1648]

I have another place you must visit...may I humbly suggest the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. I believe you'll be moved by the visit.

[@ironduke7423]

This again shows that wars aren't determined by generals or presidents or any statesmen but by simple soldiers.

[@taifriad109]

Iron Duke d

[@taifriad109]

Iron Duke gettysburg guettysburg

[@geraldmiller]

Iron Duke well I happen to disagree

[@jimbigboystoys4077]

My wife and I just got home from a trip to Gettysburg. We walked around and toured the entire battlefield, including cemetery Ridge, the peach orchard, Big Round Top, Little Round Top, The Bloody Hay Field, and the Devil’s Den. I can’t put into words the feeling you get when you walk that battlefield, trying to envision the sacrifices that were made, and the sheer, and unimaginable carnage that took place there!! It really makes you really appreciate how truly BLESSED we are in this country, thanks to the men who fought in that bloody war!! PLEASE folks….Don’t EVER take your quality of life and your freedoms for granted!! You have to keep reminding yourselves, that there has been hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of men who died the most horrific deaths on the battlefields to make that possible for us!! Freedom has to be fought for. Always has, and always will. Special thanks to all the men and women…past, present, and future, Who serve in our Armed Forces. It’s because of YOU that our freedom will always endure!! God bless each and everyone of you… And GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@charleshendrix232]

That gives me chills. And I have stood in that area and you can still feel the power of what happened there. Its an awesome experience

[@robertodeleon-gonzalez9844]

Awe-inspiring. This sent shivers through my body.

[@oatley5239]

I took my family there years ago. I insisted they read Michael Shaara’s “Killing Angels” first. We toured the fields with a guide and finished by walking Pickett’s charge with her. We crossed the field, climbed the fences and walked the slope up to the Armistead monument, all the while listening to the description of fire these men endured. At the too we sat together and weeped...

[@jspee1965]

He knew, he knew at that moment in time, that Chamberlain was not his enemy.

[@roykey3422]

God truly controls human conduct when and wherever He chooses.

[@victorianidetch]

@@roykey3422 Yes he does and it is chilling when we encounter his grace.

[@kevinsummers1836]

Only 2 moments in my travels have caused me to experience trembles running up my spine: touching one of the bells of the Titanic, and standing upon Little Round Top. 😞

[@welchjs]

A small hero from an unexpected place. A man doesn't know why sometimes, but he doesn't question it either. We all have our moments of judgement.

[@fredrickmillstead2804]

I have been to the battlefield twice, and both times been touched by the tremendous sense of loss for the men on both sides. I also felt the history of that land, and remembrances for lives lost, and valor offered by those men. GOD save our great land.

[@ITakeItGood]

William C. Oates lost 343 of his men in the attack, and his own brother died in a northern field hospital afterwards. After the war, he was elected to the House of Represenatives, where he served 7 consecutive terms. In 1898, he was promoted to brigadier general by president Mckinley himself to fight in the Spanish American War, where he served honorably. He was just as much a hero as Chamberlain, just in gray.

[@aarontiesel8776]

Traitors aren't heros

[@dalepeto9620]

Same as Joe Wheeler, Book, The Long Gray Line Atkinson

[@panzerlieb]

Aaron Tiesel the second you stop think of them as traitors is when you can start understanding them. With understanding perhaps the wound that is the Civil War can finally be healed. Referring to the men who fought and died for the confederacy as “traitors” only serves to keep that wound open. This is something that was well understood by the Federal government at the time which is why all were granted amnesty that took the pledge of loyalty to the United States. If that means pulling down not just the confederate monuments, but all of the civil war monuments and plowing under all of these battlefields then I say we should do it. It’s far past time to put this war where it belongs...in the past. This war is over, it’s been over for 157 years. For god’s sake! let it and it’s dead Rest In Peace.

[@tonygrant448]

@@aarontiesel8776 sucka$$!

[@oldprankster7606]

Chamberlain's wounds from the war left him in pain for the rest of his life. Yet he was Governor of Maine, and well as the head of his alma mater, Bowdoin College. I'm the descendent of confederate soldiers, of southern parents, yet I consider Joshua Chamberlain one of America's greatest heroes.

[@tobinmummert8374]

Many upon many people don't really even know about the battle on the south side of Little Round Top. Chamberlain started off the battle with only 350 men and held the Confederate flank and kept them from coming up the back and coming over Little Round Top and destroying the Union Army! That's amazing! I've been to the very spot where this most important battle of the Civil War took place. I look down that incredibly steep slope that seems to stretch on forever. The area where the battle took place is in such a secluded spot that I missed it all the times I visited Gettysburg! Many others miss it as well but it's there! If Chamberlain would not have held off the Confederate flank, there would not have been a need for a third day of battle at Gettysburg AND the Union would have lost the war! Hats off to Colonel Joshua Chamberlain! God Bless His Name!!!

[@tobinmummert8374]

BigPandaLittlePanda: It's really too bad you can't afford to come here to see the Gettysburg Battlefield. It's just breath taking and amazing. I love going there. It does really help that I live only 45 minutes away from Gettysburg in York, PA. Maybe someday U'll be able to get there! I'm very much like you, I can't afford to travel and I always wanted to go to see the English Countryside! I love what I see in films and photos of the English Countryside. Especially in the movie "Tamara Drewe"! That is one of my all time favorite movies!!!

[@howardclegg6497]

You believe in a myth that it saved the union.

[@foilist1]

And Chamberlain died in February 1914. Cause of death, his wounds from the Civil War, from the Battle of Petersburg, June 1864.

[@SantomPh]

foilist1 dying 50 years after a battle wound is not really dying from a battle wound

[@vinoveritas4921]

He is right, read a bio of Chamberlain. He was given death for his wounds at Petersburg, but surprisingly he survived (and he got other wounds during the Appomatox campaing). But he suffered all his life from the wounds received at Petersburg.

[@tva7263]

SantomPh while it can be argued that 50 years later he did not die of his Petersburg wound of June 18, 1864. The death certificate reads that cause of death was the wound from Petersburg. Chamberlain would fight infection in the wound, which never completely healed resulting in a fistula. Several operations were attempted to clean out the infection and close the wound, all unsuccessful. These efforts would continue through the years. Chamberlain was often quite ill because of these infections. By July of 1913 he was fighting infection again and therefore unable to attend the 50th at Gettysburg, later in the same year he was still quite ill. Though he did seem to rally, by Feb of 1914 he was sick and developed pneumonia and died. There is no doubt that though the wound was not a direct cause, it greatly weaken his health which resulted in sickness which lead to his death.

[@elizabetholiviaclark]

@@SantomPh It was, though. It was a slow, agonized passing.

[@umbrellacorpsoldier1]

Nice scene, I never knew chamberlain was that close to being shot.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

He was looking good for his age, and those cameras in 1913 were mighty fine cameras for the time.

[@crashoverride4881]

People always forget history. It was a time when the country was divided, sound familiar. I was at Gettysburg when I was a kid of about 10 years old. I felt like I was not alone. No matter where you walk you are on hollowed grounds. Least we forget that war is so terrible or we would grow so fond of it. I am a Vietnam veteran, my dad was a World War II and a Korean War veteran. I lost an uncle on the island of Saipan. No matter how you look at it Freedom is never Free. There is always a price for Freedom. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@alansnowdeal9845]

Recieved Robert E Lee's Sword to Pass to Grant.Lived in pain from wound recieved until his passing.Did So Much for Our State of Maine.A true Hero.

[@edmonddantes3640]

Chamberlain suffered immensely from his wounds all of his days.

[@hoosieryank1967]

In the words of Shelby Foote, it is well that the 20th Maine fought with courage and valor, for if they did not, they would have found no corresponding weakness in the 15th Alabama.

[@TheTourmaline57]

In the end only kindness matters.

[@jfnuyen]

"In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger. And reverent men and women from afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls." (JLC quote)

[@kellydunn7113]

jfnuyen A MOST EXCELLENT QUOTE, IN DEED!

[@JRobbySh]

During the 2nd World War, I as a child was taken to visit the battlefield of Vicksburg. As I entered one of the building built as a memorial for the dead--I think it was the Illinois memorial--I could swear I felt their presence of spirits. Iy had been 80 years since that battle, a moderately long human lifetime, and the people of the city when they spoke of “The War”. meant what it means to their grandparents. No other part of the United States has felt the weight of the conquerers boot as much as the South did.

[@frankfigueroa4586]

I've been there right where he stood at Lil round top. what a feeling i also walked pickets charge in my mind i could almost see myself being there i know it sounds crazy but you have to put yourself there as I did. God bless those men who gave their all those 3 terrible days.

[@jamesbryson575]

So much heroic sacrifice at Gettysburg. Such men.

[@andonedave]

Could use more men like Chamberlain these day. Scholar, gentleman, and an honorable warrior.

[@lonnieparsons6068]

The power of Gettysburg should be experienced by all Americans. To walk in the footsteps of those brave men is a powerful tonic for all that is right with America.

[@Mrparanormalresearch]

There were many great leaders of men in the Civil War between the States, Joshua L. Chamberlain followed his orders to not surrender that position. He did not fail on that, because if he had,the battle and the war would have been lost.

[@darrellborland119]

Thanks, and subscribed.

[@susanbelida6981]

A wonderfully brave and merciful man. LORD bless you!! Thank you for your service. 🙏 AMEN.

[@robertsilva8097]

Thank you for the Great video

[@matthewmiller9526]

That is an amazing story.

[@georgestemple3310]

Very humbling video may god rest their souls on both sides

[@Hi-lb8cq]

Powerful words! !...cool video

[@DonSimkovich]

this makes me want to find out more about Joshua Chamberlain.

[@cellofingers]

Damn fine video.

[@hoosieryank1967]

I'm a buff and this is the first I've ever heard of it...wow.

[@tva7263]

Great video! But who is the guy with the beard?

[@jeffdarnell7942]

The year before he died. I found a book at my parents house. Both our parents had passed away, and myself and 2 siblings were cleaning it out. Whole family was actually. I was going through Dads reading material, and found a GREAT Book, I've read twice in the last year!! "The Passing Of Armies", By Joshua L. Chamberlain. Just from the last year of the War, pretty much, the Surrender at Appomattox, and the mustering out after the War. It actually has his Death or Burial Announcement, or what they gave people to read at the Funeral of General Chamberlain. I'm a Southern Man, but I tell you, they don't come any better than J.L.C. I've always thought that the best United States Generals were obviously General Lee, and probably Jackson. He'll, the entire North thought the same as well. They were just unreal great Generals. And I say this as a Southern Man, that's a Unionist. East Tennessee was ALWAYS Union. There's no Plantations in the Mountains of East Tennessee. Whites and blacks lived together in the mountains, as well as married each other. But Lee and Jackson were just different breeds of Generals. But the best other 2 Generals in my opinion weren't Grant and Sherman. Sherman isn't even in the top 10 of Civil War Generals, my book. He got his ass kicked in the west Theater too often. Patrick Cleburne smashed him twice, and Grant lost over 57,000 Soldiers against Lee, in ONE MONTH and one day!! May 2nd thru June 3rd, 1864. The best were Winfield Scott Hancock, and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Hands down. They were the other 2 best Generals of the Civil War. And Patrick Cleburne.

[@skudaarkaat1]

How blessed you are; and he was!

[@colepeterson994]

If this is true than the hole battle would have been changed. Think about it, later in the day he led the crucial bayonet charge that changed the battle and in a way won the war!!!

[@vinoveritas4921]

Chamberlain's defense on Union's flank at Little Round Top was heroic and crucial, but saying it has changed the hole battle (and the course of the war) may be a bit exagerated. On day 3, Lee wanted to attack again on both Union wings, he changed his plan to an attack on the Union center because the situation had changed on Culp's Hill, where a counterattack pushed back the Confederates from the positions they conquered the day before.

[@76JStucki]

Seriously? 2 people in the same thread can't spell the word "whole?"

[@vinoveritas4921]

Sorry, english is not my mother tongue :(

[@JeffTheFutureJaros]

Cool story, this is very informative to a Civil War enthusiast like myself, thanks for the cool post, you have this entire documentary?

[@Savchenkov1]

How many men in battle, come close to being shot, but also will never know ?

[@stuartkruse2690]

All of the Survivors

[@markrunk9171]

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was at Appomattox Courthouse for Lee's surrender and ordered the men to attention and salute to the confederate troops as they filed past. It was said to be the beginning of the healing process.

[@msbmsbus]

Can't believe they didn't edit out the car on the road at 1:20.

[@kittensquack6695]

We can pretend it was a 1913 Chevrolet Series Six, lol!

[@Gungho1a]

The 20th Maine story has overshadowed the action of 1st Minnesota. 250 survivors, ordered to charge into a CSA brigade of 1200, to push them from the crest of cemetery ridge. They succeeded, closed the gap in the line, and saved the situation. Not detracting from Chamberlain and his men, but no one wrote books about the action of 1st Minnesota, the first regiment of volunteers raised in the Union.

[@catherinemclarty4641]

Love this hope to see the film

[@BenAliGtor]

Well said.

[@fw5995]

Perhaps the closest example we have of a perfect human being.

[@nicollaney]

That website no longer works you might want to update the description of this video

[@duanekuiper]

Thank you- very cool

[@SeanWinters]

I am a diresct decendant to this man. Pretty cool!

[@scottreynolds3565]

Joshua Chamberlain won the Congressional Medal of honor for his actions on Little Round Top. He was later promoted to Major General and severed as the Govenor of Maine for 8 years. He may have saved the Union that day, God bless his memory. Our nation needs more men like him today.

[@johnmecca6358]

Joshua Chamberlain had no direct dependents after his daughter Daisy's children. Her three daughters had no children. His son Wyllys had bo children

[@antares4s]

What is the documentation for this supposed event?

[@kameins]

Joshua Chamberlain died at 1914, just next year. (85 years old, due to the wound at Petersburg.)

[@mossyoak2213]

Is there a link to the primary source? (The letter written by the soldier of the 15th Alabama Regiment.)

[@PointofSpear]

I can give you the exact page in the book written by Gen. Chamberlain himself. The book is Through Blood and Fire at Gettysburg. The letter that Chamberlain said he received is on page 21. Publisher is Stan Clark Military Books. This scene depicts it word-for-word. Hope this helps.

[@MrSkegman]

150 years---oh my i cannot go

[@rubinsteve1]

that southern sniper was a good bloke indeed.

[@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

Is this a true case or based on a scenario that could have played out? I've long been interested in Chamberlain and Little Round Top My distant ancestor Lt Charles E. Hazlett commanded a Union battery and was killed shortly before Chamberlain took over

[@ChrisAldridge]

I also don't think that soldier realized that within his sights, lay southern independence. Because everyone on the Union side wanted to retreat. Chamberlain made them stay.

[@georgeabraham5672]

Eventually north would have won. One way or the other

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Where in the hell did you learn that?

[@johnlansing2902]

Troubled times call out for great men , then when you look into your soul then you will know your true measure. May we meet the measure that's needed.

[@alstahl8574]

RIP great leader! Semper Fi

[@cwb0051]

Did this really happen?..Did he go back 50 years later?..JLC was a Good Man..

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

cwb0051 Yes, he went back to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the battle. Unfortunately he died soon after, from complications from his wound at Cold Harbor.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

His wound was during an attack at Petersburg, not Cold Harbor but that's neither here nor there. Chamberlain returned to visit the battlefield several times until his death, and yes he was there in 1913 for the last time.

[@cpierce3277]

Both grandfathers served in France in WW1; in WW2 my dad was in the navy pacific, his brother army air corps pacific, my moms brother marine corps pacific, my dads sister women’s army corps northern France and Germany . My two first cousins were all in during Vietnam, one served 3 tours. I was in then as well, but only 1 tour. What tremendous shoes have been left for those who come behind to fill ! My wife has 1 nephew who did a tour in Afghanistan. Any body not willing to fight to protect liberty and freedom, is willing to accept barbarism ! My only wish is that somebody will be there in the future to save our grandchildren and great grandchildren!

[@mito88]

protect liberty and freedom. rhetorics.....

[@cpierce3277]

@@mito88 There used to be a country that helped spread freedom and liberty to countless people around the globe , are some people in that country mentally I'll enough to hate another ethnicity , yes , always will be , but NOBODY can subtract thr good that country has done , nuff said

[@JohnnyWoodard]

I’ve read that this letter is apocryphal.

[@blackiechong4344]

If it was 50 years later it would be around 1918. But in the distant you can see a more modern car

[@rick2112rkrk]

The Battle of Gettysburg took place from July 1-July 3 1863. 50 years later would be 1913

[@blackiechong4344]

rick2112rkrk Sorry! Math was never my best subject in school but I should know better anyway

[@patrickf.garrett5201]

Lol

[@karnevalsjeck1984]

It's a DeLorean DMC-12.

[@antares4s]

No in Spartacus the guy was filmed wearing a wrist watch.

[@robertjohnson8938]

Would like to go there

[@thelastjohnwayne]

I wonder how many times this has happened?

[@writerman242]

Just think if as people commented here that war outcomes are determined by the soldiers themselves, nobody showed up to fight at all It's an old idea but even a better one now than ever. No attacks please

[@willgordon3499]

thats what i was gonna say. glad someone noticed

[@ragnarragnarson9393]

My own ancestor often visited with his companions in the 20th Maine after the War ended. This video was okay but could have been better IMO. (You should have gotten Jeff Daniels!)

[@JRobbySh]

@racsan67 : A truly noble man. Unlike Sheridan, a mercenary spirit, if also a great soldier. Light a candle in his memory on his next birthday.

[@jimscaggs2422]

One shot could have changed history........does make one wonder

[@HiTechOilCo]

God.

[@FryCook87]

Wow! The camera quality is pretty good for 1913

[@jamesmurphy6169]

Joshua Chamberlain saved the Union on that day in Gettysburg.

[@BELCAN57]

Read "The Passing of the Armies", written by Chamberlain.

[@catherinemclarty4641]

I will, thank you.can you tell me the name of the movie this scene came from.

[@charleschapman6810]

"ear her human' soft and low. Poor Amanda doesn't know. 'Twas ended forty years ago!...in the hills of Shiloh!"

[@davidglenn572]

A very pivotal moment in our history. If the Confederates has taken that hill they would have rolled up Union left flank and then marched to Washington. Slavery would have continued for another 100 years eventually collapsing under its own weight but nevertheless a very different history for this nation

[@brianturner8477]

Hi Scott, thank you for your prior service. I have 3 lads in the Army at present. Your story of your encounter at Little Round Top could have been the Spirit of the Living God moving upon you. Many times in the book of The Acts of The Apostles there are instances of this occurring. God promised that He would indwell believers in the Old Testament. This is the essence of the “new birth” which Messiah spoke to the Pharisee Nicodemus about in John 3:1-5.

[@jamesmarshall9598]

Thanx, any U.S. Senator considering considering reparations ought to review this. The sacrifice has already been made.

[@matthewmiller9526]

I think it’s hard to understand how true it is that if the 20th Maine fails the battle would be won by the south, I have no doubt of that because if you go to the south of the position they were holding there is a trail that leads about a mile to the backyard of a house onTaneytown Road. If Oates gets to the Taneytown Road he would have taken the artillery reserve of the Army of the Potomac, they were parked right there during that part of the battle.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Did you overlook the fact that the entire VI Corps was in reserve behind LRT and the ridge? There's no way they would've taken the artillery reserve though they could've played hell with the wagons for a short while until they were overwhelmed by Union numbers.

[@matthewmiller9526]

@@indy_go_blue6048 I thought 6th Corp was still further south, completely played out, something like 26 mile forced march to get there, spent 4 years in the infantry, that’s a tough road march.

[@melodymakermark]

“A long way from Bowden College, Col. Chamberlain”. - Strong Vincent “No father than Harvard Yaaaaard”. - Joshua Chamberlain Now we’ll see how professors fight!