Chamberlain said: “When did you eat last?” There was no immediate answer from the mutineers. Finally one man said: “They been tryin’ to break us by not feedin’ us. We ain’t broke yet.” Chamberlain nodded and said: “They just told us you were coming a little while ago. I’ve told the cook to butcher a […]
Monthly Archives: July 2015
The Civil Dozen — Part Two (b)
Part Two [2] He was born Lawrence Joshua Chamberlain – on September 8, 1828 – in a cottage near the family homestead in Brewer, Maine. Brewer was a farming and shipbuilding community. Chamberlain’s parents named him after the heroic Commodore James Lawrence who had immortalized the words: “Don’t give up the ship!” The eldest of […]