2020-07 2 sessions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/23/2020
EXTRACT From Official Report of Adjutant General of Maine for 1865, of Military Biography of Brevet Major General J.L. Chamberlain of Brunswick. 7pp. quarto, untrimmed, and records his battle record with emphasis on Gettysburg that reads in part: "...At Gettysburg, he was assigned to a post of great importance and peril - the extreme left of our general line - and withstood an attack in front, flank and rear for more than two hours from Law's brigade of Hood's division - his ammunition at length entirely exhausted, and for the last half hour using that of the rebel dead and wounded who he had repulsed in the third assault. Holding the position with the loss of nearly half his men, a fresh line of the enemy coming upon us with heavy force, Col. Chamberlain was obliged to rush forward and 'meet them halfway' with a bayonet charge which completely routed them, driving them across the slope of Round Top, killing and wounding 150..." Much more. Fine condition.
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