After being discharged from military service, this former professor of rhetoric served as the president of Bowdoin College and the Governor of his home state of (*) Maine.
This man was approached by an emissary of John B. Gordon after which Charles Griffin charged this man with carrying out a task that he described in his memoir The Passing of the Armies as taking place with an "awful stillness as if it were the passing of the dead." After being discharged from military service, this former professor of rhetoric served as the president of Bowdoin College and the Governor of his home state of (*) Maine. This man ordered his troops to refuse the line, then fix bayonets and charge down a hillside to repulse Hood's Texans on the extreme left of the Union line, an action for which he was later awarded the Medal of Honor. For 10 points, name this Union officer who led the 20th Maine against a Confederate onslaught on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
This man was approached by an emissary of John B. Gordon after which Charles Griffin charged this man with carrying out a task that he described in his memoir The Passing of the Armies as taking place with an "awful stillness as if it were the passing of the dead."
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain