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Other sculptures depicting Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Joshua Lawrence Chamverlain
in Bronze
Joshua Lawrence Chamverlain
in marble
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
in pecanwood
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at Little Round Top
in pecan wood
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at Little Round Top
in Bronze
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Remarks of-Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain watching the surrender at Appomatox - April 12 1865.
One can clearly picture the moment in the mind as the proud but defeated Army of Northern Virginia filed past. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was typically gracious to the vanquished Confederates, and was very highly thought of by the South after the War.
"Before us, in proud humiliation stood the embodiment of manhood: men whom
neither toils and sufferings, nor the fact of death, nor disaster, nor hopelessness could bend from their resolve.
Standing before us now, thin worn and famished but erect, and with eyes looking level into ours, waking memories that bound us together as no other bond
On our part, not a sound of trumpet more, nor roll of drum; not a cheer, nor word nor whisper of vain-glorying, but an awed stillness rather, and breath-holding, as if it were the passing of the dead."
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