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IN THE HANDS OF PROVIDENCE
1992 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Trulock, Alice Rains.
In the hands of Providence : Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War / by Alice Rains Trulock.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-8078-2020-2 (cloth: alk. paper)
ISBN 0-8078-4980-4 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 18281914. 2. GeneralsUnited States-Biography. 3. United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 20th (1862-1865) 4. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Campaigns. 5. United States. ArmyBiography. I. Title.
E467.1.C45T78 1992
973.744092dc20 91-50791
[B] CIP
For my dear children,
Ruth Wise Shaull,
William Dale Wise, and
David Curtis Wise,
and in loving memory
of their brother,
Charles Torin Wise,
our long lost,
green-eyed Chuck
CONTENTS
MAPS
  1. State of Maine :
  2. Chamberlains Field of War, 18621863 :
  3. Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862 :
  4. Routes and Positions Taken by Chamberlain, the Twentieth Maine, and the Other Regiments of Their Brigade, December 1316, 1862, during the Battle of Fredericksburg :
  5. Battle of Gettysburg, 4:00 P.M., July 2, 1863 :
  6. Routes and Positions Taken by Chamberlain, the Twentieth Maine, and Vincents Brigade on July 2, 1863, in the Southeast Portion of the Gettysburg Battlefield :
  7. Twentieth Maine Positions on Round Top and Little Round Top as Sketched by Chamberlain :
  8. Chamberlains Field of War, 18641865 :
  9. Union Attack at Petersburg, June 18, 1864, 3:00 P.M. : 197
  10. Actions at the Battles of the Quaker Road and the White Oak Road, March 29 and 31, 1865 :
  11. Battle of Five Forks: Sheridan and the Fifth Corps Attack :
ILLUSTRATIONS
  • Lt. Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain, 1862 :
  • Col. Adelbert Ames :
  • Frances Caroline Adams Chamberlain, ca. 1862 :
  • Grace Dupee Chamberlain and Harold Wyllys Chamberlain, ca. 1862 :
  • Dr. George E. Adams :
  • Thomas Davee Chamberlain, 1865 :
  • Joshua Chamberlain, Jr. :
  • Sarah Dupee Brastow Chamberlain :
  • Horace Beriah Chamberlain :
  • Sarah Brastow Chamberlain :
  • John Calhoun Chamberlain :
  • Bowdoin College, ca. 1850 :
  • Professor Joshua L. Chamberlain, 1859 :
  • Col. James C. Rice :
  • Col. Strong Vincent :
  • Capt. Ellis Spear :
  • Capt. Holman S. Melcher :
  • Capt. Walter G. Morrill :
  • Lt. John Marshall Brown :
  • Capt. A. W. Clark :
  • Col. William C. Oates, CSA :
  • Bvt. Maj. Gen. Charles Griffin :
  • Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren :
  • Sgt. Patrick DeLacy :
  • Capt. John Bigelow :
  • Brig. Gen. Lysander Cutler :
  • Lt. Ransford B. Webb :
  • Brig. Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain :
  • Brig. Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain :
  • Bvt. Maj. Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain :
  • Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan :
  • Bvt. Brig. Gen. Edgar Gregory :
  • Bvt. Maj. Gen. Romeyn B. Ayres :
  • Bvt. Maj. Gen. Joseph J. Bartlett :
  • Bvt. Maj. Gen. Samuel W. Crawford :
  • Maj. Edwin A. Glenn :
  • Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon, CSA :
  • Bvt. Maj. Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain :
  • Brig. Gen. Henry A. Wise, CSA :
  • Frances Caroline Adams Chamberlain, 1865 :
  • Chamberlain house, Brunswick, Maine :
  • Joshua L. Chamberlain, ca. 1875 :
  • Twentieth Maine Reunion, Gettysburg, 1889 :
  • Joshua L. Chamberlain, ca. 1905 :
  • Joshua L. Chamberlain :
  • Joshua L. Chamberlain :
FOREWORD
This is a superb book. It is, on the one hand, a biography. But because the writer has firmly placed her protagonist in the social, political, and military history of his times, it is also an exceptional narrative history. Three essential elements seem to me to account for the excellence of the book: the historical milieu of the life of Joshua L. Chamberlain, the facts of his remarkable life, and the authors skill in research and in the telling of Chamberlains life.
Robert Penn Warren has written: The Civil War is, for the American imagination, the great single event of our history. Without too much wrenching, it may, in fact, be said to be American history. At first blush, Warrens statement may strike one as an exaggeration, but the fact is that it is difficult to overstate the significance of the Civil War in our history. Translated into an equal proportion of todays population, Civil War fatalities from combat and disease would account for five million American deaths. It is estimated that three soldiers were wounded for each soldier killed in combat, another staggering loss. In spite of our efforts to rationalize, even to romanticize it, the Civil War is the American holocaust, standing like a giant and grotesque statue in the midst of our generally optimistic national experience. The consequences of the war were surely profound. The American nation was saved and redefined. Slavery was abolished. In the latter regard, let us once and for all acknowledge that the South seceded to protect slavery and that, however flawed and inept the trial, freedom was at stake.
The presence of the issue of freedom sets up the startling contradiction of the war: it was at the same time tragic and redemptive. Denis W. Brogan has captured this contradiction. The war, he writes, put the American people, decisively, once and for all, among the peoples who have lived in interesting times and who have paid an extravagantly high price for this experience. Brogan says further, I do not for a moment suggest that the American Civil War was a good thingmerely that it was and is felt by the unregenerate (a majority of the Western races now and for as long as we can inspect the past) to be the most moving, interesting, dignified thing that has ever occurred in America. The war and the period of the war are the milieu of this book. That is the first element of its excellence.
By any standard, Joshua Chamberlain is a fascinating human being, an ordinary man of his times who, in the context of the war and its aftermath, was somehow extraordinary. An academic at Bowdoin College, a seminarian with no significant military background or education, he had a natural gift for soldiering and for military leadership. Essential to this gift in the kind of personal war in which he became involved, Chamberlain had exceptional physical courage and the capacity, whatever it is called, to withstand the searing pain of wounds and the primitive discomforts of Civil War soldiering.
Chamberlain started his Civil War career as the lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth Maine Volunteers. He progressed to the rank of brigadier general, not by brevet but by commission. He commanded a regiment, a brigade, and a division. Along the way he was wounded six times, grievously at Petersburg. Perhaps his best-known wartime exploit occurred at Gettysburg. Great events like Gettysburg are made up of a number of little events, particular incidents that were unusually dramatic. A few of these particular, dramatic little events were also decisive in terms of the outcome of the battle. In the case of Gettysburg, the defense by the Twentieth Maine of the Federal left at Little Round Top on the second day of the battle was clearly decisive. Chamberlain commanded the Twentieth in this fight.
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