"Drawing on Chamberlain's extensive memoirs and writings and multiple period sources, historian Brian F. Swartz follows Chamberlain across Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia while examining the determined warrior who let nothing prevent him from helping save the United States"-- Provided by publisher.

The professor goes to war --Horror on the Heights -- Mud and mutineers -- Stand-up fight at Little Round Top -- Bird-Colonel Chamberlain would do -- The death angel could not claim him -- I don't feel right yet -- Hell for ten minutes and we are out of it! -- Useless sacrifice at White Oak Road -- On the road past Five Forks -- So ended that 9th of April 1865 -- Toward Washington they tramped -- The end of it all -- Appendix A Joshua L. Chamberlain sites to visit in Maine -- Appendix B "Do not scorn what is brought in love": the complicated relationship of Joshua and Fanny / Ashley Towle, Ph.D. -- Appendix C Why Chamberlain? / Ryan Quint.