The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-19
Chamberinin's Record as written by his
own Sword.

Chamberinia's Record as written by his
own sword.
The following article from the Lewiston
Journal is admirably written, and brings into
strong contrast the rival candidates for the
position of Governor Pillsbury's record hay
ing been duly presented in the previous ar
ticle: ta
At the breaking out of the war Joshua l.
Chamberlain was professor in Bo1owin Col
lege. He had acquired an enviable reputa-
tlon as scholar, and was occupying digni-
| fled chair in venerable Institution which,
but few years before, had given him its di-
| ploma. At the first call to arms he was ca
| ger and impatient to enlist in the service, bnt
| he was held back for season by the persis-
tant request OF the Trustees and Faculty of
the College. At length, on the 1st of August,
1862, when the war had been raging some
thing more than year, he procured leave of
| absence from his Professorship "for the pur-
pose OF visiting Europe and perfecting him
| self in the special branches he was engaged
in teaching" He at once changed his plans
| and offered his services to Gov. Wash burn at
what might well be deemed the darkest hour
OF the war, when our army had been with
| drawn from the Peninsula, after McCIel-
lan's disasters, and when it had just received
its crushing defeats under Pope.
| Gov. Washburn accepted the tender made
| by Prot. Chamberlain and at once commis-
stoned him as Lieut-Col. of the goth Maine
Regiment, then just organized. Accept
| ing the position, against the strenuous oppo-
| stlon ofhis colleagues in the College, he at
| once entered upon active duty-and from the
| date OF his muster on the Sth of August, 1862,
| till the war closed on the victorious field of
| AppOmattOx on the ninth of April, 1865, he
had IN all put four days leape of absence-
| No soldiers record can show more dilligent
| devotion to duty.
| By the promotion of Col. Adelbert Ames to
| Brieadier-General. Chamberlain was soon
made Colonel OF the Twentieth, and the i'm
| perishable glory and renown of the fighting
| regiment are indelbly associated with his
name. The regiment reached the seat OF
war in season to engage in the Antietam
| campaign-where, on the day of the great
| battle Col. Chamberlain greatly distinguished
| himself in brief engagement at Shepards-
to- wn Ford A month later he led danger
| Gus reconnaissance in one OF the passes of the
South Mountain to intercept one of Stuarts
cavalry raids.
In the battle of Fredericksburg, under
Burnside, Dee. 13, Chamberlain was present
and participated in the whole-belaving
with signal gallantry, and receiving a wound
in The face.
~ tnH novehi1n.' ,eaulS " .ne pattle y,
onance,iolvlie' .io tne maiue t"eh''eln Goulu
noI partlclpate ON ACCOUNT vi t1e men nav
ing the sman PoA, pelnS inocuiateG Dy mis-
take Vi Tue Medical department When tne
oattle was ABOUT TO oe iougnt, however, Col.
Onalnoellath wanteu az the prlviegeo y. Jo,ninS,
Pm a. on'T az Oh -, IN -. S L. 81
snare Ine Sinai poH Win .ne re1eiS. n,S 5;s le
iuest was "n.eti anb ne "hu httsS nas uiGu uiu
ne .ha ,oo,;r@ on ;n' bot,, b % CIT. .,uo.
co1 Chambara;. hn1 I Won a areet Sstnction is o0
ooi. Gn"elall mon siea1 a ,Io1ioh I,oii ~,
was us ~ pnd 'ISs 0"p.mu @do ne,u oho
nelsn;s y. ~ atoeho th hS uotpoia.nt ,t'',
every inon " Ine way anu "nIn . ,a Ss.nS ou'
y; 9;o. ~ ahto;,1 ~ t.nS tto oar,rdna hnpos
uie. y, ~ ,tVn 'ho "a, uGhes
o, tne ueau .eHeis .naS .eI ne.1ie srs % 'elIipie ~
ploWs " .lS CT Io mIn.,on no S aSIaIn .,a
was Ieu ~ wi S.. IAN an - Un .'nu Se
iae' pun. ws' J.s 1aiiicu U ny Sn1 n;; "nSo
tue 'roops VI Iiooos tA"s a., asbt;, nohl5
the moSC uesperate VI Ine nsuIlnS seoei
corps. for ms gailantry on this DIoody neia,
Col. Cnamoerlaln received ihe speciai tnahks
OF MS brigade, DIVISION anu corps command
ers, and WIS recommended for promotion to
'lG r. iaha tha y, nomasahie oanro;O m e ,oe, -,
III sne ile,uoraoie eanpaisn ol loo4, un-
sional and honorable mart A. Snottsvlvania
To,,rt IT. ',nSo ha ,uop 80, d;,,;S;on COM.
mand and with seven segments he CHARGED