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Adam Lewis LaValley To The Last

The Inevitable Charge

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An amassment of projectiles soaring up the face of a ridge, 200 Union men face desperate odds: an assault by thousands of Confederate veterans. There is no escape. Footnotes from further research are added at the end. After reading this, I would highly suggest watching the 6-minute video about the charge on my homepage to get a better idea about it: Gettysburg - Chamberlain's Charge (DVD-rip) [more]

Keywords: Gettysburg, Civil War, 20th Maine, Chamberlain, Joshua, Lawrence, rebels, Confederates, Little Round Top

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ELLIS SPEAR THE STORY OF THE RAISING AND ORGANIZATION

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Ellis Spear (October 15, 1834 – April 3, 1917) was an officer in the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry [more]

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Ellis Spear The Story of the Raising and Organization of a Regiment of Volunteers in 1862 Military Order of the Loyal Legion

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Ellis Spear (October 15, 1834 – April 3, 1917) was an officer in the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment who rose to the rank of general during the American Civil War.Spear was born in 1834 in Warren, Maine where he grew up on his family's farm and attended a Presbyterian church Sunday School. Spear received his higher education at Bowdoin College, graduating in 1858. Spear remained teaching at Bowdoin for four years to pay back his cost of tuition. Eventually Spear studied law, but when the Civil War erupted he became a recruiter and formed Company G of the 20th Maine. Spear was commissioned as a captain, but was quickly promoted to the rank of major, then lieutenant colonel, and later brevetted colonel and brigadier general at the end of the war. At Appomattox Court House in 1865, Spear witnessed the meeting of Grant and Lee during the surrender the Army of Northern Virginia.[1][2] [more]

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ELLIS SPEAR THE STORY OF THE RAISING AND ORGANIZATION OF A REGIMENT OF VOLUNTEERS IN 1862.

MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYALLEGION OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMANDERY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, WAR PAPERS 46

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Spear was born in 1834 in Warren, Maine where he grew up on his family's farm and attended a Presbyterian church Sunday School. Spear received his higher education at Bowdoin College, graduating in 1858. Spear remained teaching at Bowdoin for four years to pay back his cost of tuition. Eventually Spear studied law, but when the Civil War erupted he became a recruiter and formed Company G of the 20th Maine. [more]

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John N. Cobb The Lobster Fishery of Maine

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John Nathan Cobb (February 20, 1868 - January 13, 1930) was an American author, naturalist, conservationist, canneryman, and educator who attained a high position in academia without the benefit of a college education. In a career that began as a printer's aide for a newspaper, he worked as a stenographer and clerk, a newspaper reporter, a field agent for the U.S. Fish Commission (USFC) and its successor, the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, as an editor for a commercial fishing trade magazine of the Pacific Northwest, and as a supervisor for companies in the commercial fishing industry. [more]

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Not Applicable Through Palestine With The 20th Machine Gun Squadron

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It Was On The 4th July 1917 That Authority Was Given To The 7th [more]

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Walter H. Rich Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine

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What is apparently the earliest mention of this body of water appears on some old Icelandic charts that [more]

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Walter H. Rich Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine

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At the different seasons of the year the entire Bay of Fundy [9] is a fishing ground for sardines and large herring; and while these are of somewhat less importance in recent years than formerly, the principal fisheries of this region still center around the herring industries--the supplying of the canning factories with the small herring used as sardines and the taking of large herring for food and bait. [more]

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Unknown None Through Palestine With The 20th Machine Gun Squadron (Fiscle Part-9)

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It Was On The 4th July 1917 That Authority Was Given To The 7th [more]

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Charles Clark Munn Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast

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"It's goin' to be a nasty night," said Uncle Terry, coming in from the shed and dumping an [more]

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