‘On Great Fields’: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Professor and Hero

“The College Colonel,” a poem by Herman Melville, describes the return of a Civil War veteran soon after the end of hostilities at Appomattox. The colonel’s regiment is “but a remnant half-tattered, and battered, and worn.” The same can be said for the subject of the poem. An idealistic college…

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