Presents a comprehensive biography of Civil War General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain who commanded the Twentieth Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment and traces his life and career that included campaigns at Antietam, Fredericksburg, and his brilliant charge on Little Round Top at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863.

List of maps : State of Maine ; Chamberlain's field of war, 1862-1863 ; Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862 ; Routes and positions taken by Chamberlain, the Twentieth Maine, and the other regiments of their brigade, December 13-16, 1862, during the Battle of Fredericksburg ; Battle of Gettysburg, 4:00 p.m., July 2, 1863 ; Routes and positions taken by chamberlain, the Twentieth Maine, and Vincent's Brigade on July 2, 1863, in the Southeast portion of the Gettysburg Battlefield ; Twentieth Maine position on Round Top and Little Round Top as sketched by Chamberlain ; Chamberlain's field of war, 1864-1865 ; Union attack on Petersburg, June 18, 1864, 3:00 p.m. ; Actions at the battles of Quaker Road and the White Oak Road, March 29 and 31, 1865 ; Battle of Five Forks : Sheridan and the Fifth Corps attack.

Chapter 1.Union forever, hurrah boys, hurrah! -- Chapter 2. What manner of men we will be -- Chapter 3. Twentieth Maine -- Chapter 4. Death-gardens, haunted by glorious ghosts -- Chapter 5. Gettysburg: to the limits of the soul's ideal -- Chapter 6. Country would not stand it, if they knew -- Chapter 7. In the hands of providence -- Chapter 8. Soul of the lion -- Chapter 9. Forward to the nation's second birth -- Chapter 10. Passing of the armies -- Chapter 11. And other songs in other keys.