Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Citizen-Soldier

By Victor A. Walsh
There can be no home without a country, and no life without honor.
~ Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1867
Granite monument at Gettysburg dedicated to the 20th Maine Regiment, Thomas Conroy
At dawn from the observation tower, the mist hovers over the farm fields of Gettysburg National Military Park like wisps of smoke from a thousand campfires.
There are few visitors in the park: no caravans of cars, no crowds, only the haunting silence of this hallowed ground. The statues of generals, officers, infantrymen, and sharpshooters embellish the battlefield in bronze and granite.
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