Passing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Civil War (Brian F. Swartz - UA) set Devil's Den

Devil's Den

many in the north who were inclined to shrug off the departure of southern states came around to strong opposition and answered President Lincoln's call for a volunteer army

sometimes as a brief comment in passing and other times as part of a noteworthy event in their lives

Mary Virginia “Jennie” Wade

Passing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Civil War (Brian F. Swartz - UA) set Devil's DenPassing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Civil War (Emerging Civil War Series) by Brian F Swartz As the brigade he commanded attacked a Confederate battery on a hill outside Petersburg in July 1864, a bursting shell blew Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain from the saddle and wounded his horse. After the enemy battery skedaddled, the brigade took the hill and dug in, and up came supporting Union guns. Chamberlain figured the days fighting