Second Battle of Petersburg
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The Second Battle of Petersburg, also known as the assault on Petersburg, was fought June 15–18, 1864, at the beginning of the Richmond–Petersburg Campaign. Union forces under Lieutenant General Ulyss
The war in Virginia – the 18th Army Corps storming a fort on the right of the Rebel line before Petersburg, June 15, sketch by Edwin Forbes (Dunn House at the Confederate Dimmock Line)
General Robert E. Lee, CSA
Joshua Chamberlain
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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was an American college professor and politician from Maine who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army. He became a highly respected and decorated
Second Battle of Petersburg
…also known as Battery 27, the position where the Dimmock Line crossed the Jerusalem Plank Road, present-day U.S. Route 301), an attack in which Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, commanding the First Brigade, First Division, V Corps, was severely wounded. His wound was believed to be mortal and Chamberlain was granted a battlefield…
Chamberlain in the 1860s
Little Round Top, western slope, photographed by Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1863)
Capt. Ellis Spear, Chamberlain's "right-hand man" on Little Round Top
Confederate General John B. Gordon was assigned the task to surrender all arms to Gen. Chamberlain.