"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
Under the patronage of St. Tammany
Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls...This is the great reward of service. To live, far out and on, in the life of others;...to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.
-- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Speech on the dedication of the Maine monuments at Gettysburg, 1889
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On the 145th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Bowdoin College has launched an online resource dedicated to Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.
It was on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, that the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, commanded by Col. Chamberlain, fought the Battle of Little Round Top, which culminated in a dramatic downhill bayonet charge — one of the most well-known engagements at Gettysburg and in the Civil War, and for which Chamberlain was awarded the Medal of Honor.
Resources include Chamberlain's letters to his father, wife and others, such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and King William of Prussia. Letters are presented both in text and in Chamberlain's hand.
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