Day 163 Maine Studies: Joshua Chamberlain Presentation

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: "The Hero from Brunswick, Maine" Presentation by Sophie Calderwood

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 Joshua Chamberlain Bio Report Power Point Presentation: MAINE STUDIES PROJECT 1

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1.       Born & Childhood

1. Born on September 8, 1828 in Brewer Maine

2. His parents were Joshua and Sarah Chamberlain

3. Joshua was Born Lawrence Joshua Chamberlain but changed it to Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

4. Joshua Chamberlain grew up on a farm in Brewer, he went to school and was a very good student, and he loved music and became an excellent singer

5. Joshua Chamberlin climbed Mount Kahtadin as a young boy and learned about Native Americans

6. Joshua Chamberlains father wanted him to be an officer in the army and his mother wanted him to be a minister in a church

2. Married & Children

1. Joshua Chamberlain decided to go to Bowdoin College, but he would have to study a lot before he could get in.

2. Joshua Chamberlain attended First Parish Church and became the director of the choir. He met a woman there named Fanny Adams but decided not to marry until Joshua became a minister.

3. Instead of becoming a mister Joshua Chamberlain got offered a job as an instructor for Bowdoin College, now he could marry Fanny and be making enough money to support a family.

4. Chamberlain studied for three additional years at Bangor Theological society in Bangor, Maine.

5. Joshua Chamberlain met Harriet Beecher Stowe at Bowdoin College.

6. Joshua Chamberlain had five children, but two died in infancy and one whom prematurely survived

3. Education & Work

1. Joshua Chamberlain had no military education

2. Joshua Chamberlain was a student at Bowdoin College

3. After Chamberlain studied at Bangor Theological Seminary he became a professor at Bowdoin and the head of the Modern Languages Department. 

4. Chamberlain not volunteer for the Civil War at first, he waited for a year because Fanny did not want him to leave

5. In 1861 Chamberlain continued to work in Bowdoin as a professor

6. In 1862, all of the men in Chamberlains class had gone off to war; he had no choice but to leave to

4. Civil War & Military Accomplishments

1. Joshua Chamberlain became lieutenant colonel of the 20^th Maine regiment

2. Joshua Chamberlain and the 20^th Maine regiment were assigned to fight at the Battle of Antietam but did not make it in time

3. Joshua Chamberlain is in my sight, considered an American Hero because if he didn’t stand up for the Union line and if he didn’t win Little Round top, our country might have had a different fate.

4. After Little Round Top General Ulysses S. Grant made Joshua Chamberlain a brigadier general lieutenant colonel and gave him a medal of honor.

5. Chamberlain helped during the siege of Petersburg

6. Chamberlain gave a speech at the Appomattox Courthouse during Lee’s surrender

5. Post-war & Bowdoin College & Politics

1. After the War Chamberlain came home to find four of his five children dead

2. Joshua Chamberlain ran for governor of Maine 4 times and won all four times after the Civil War was over.

3.  After Chamberlain decided not to run for Governor of Maine again, he got a letter from Bowdoin College asking him if he would like to become the president of the college, and he (of course) replied yes.

4. Joshua Chamberlain ran for governor as a republican  

5. Chamberlain made a revolutionary decision as president of Bowdoin College, he allowed women to be admitted

6. Chamberlain bought a boat called the wildflower and used it to sail his friends and family around Casco Bay

6. Later-Life, Death, & Legacy

1. Joshua Chamberlain was living in a tiny little house when he was president of Bowdoin College, he decided he wanted a bigger living quarters and took a crane and moved it from Potter Street to Maine Street.

2. In 1880, Maine was convinced that it was going to have a Civil War because the results of an election were disputed and it started the idea of a civil war, however, Chamberlain went to Augusta and gave a talk that stopped the idea

3. Before Chamberlain started a new job in Portland Surveyor of the port Joshua went on an extended trip to Italy and Egypt, He loved it.

4. Fanny Chamberlain died in 1905 from a broken hip; she died at the age of 80

5. Joshua Chamberlain died of old age, illness, and an old wound from Gettysburg that caught up to him on February 24, 1914

6. I remember Joshua Chamberlain for Little Round top, and Bowdoin College, I was very interested in learning about him and I loved it