Passing Through the Fire

This Civil War biography “draw[s] upon fresh material . . . to offer some important new insights. . . . An outstanding addition.” ( NYMAS Book Review)   As the brigade he commanded attacked a Confederate battery on a hill outside Petersburg in July 1864, a bursting shell blew Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain from the saddle and wounded his horse. After the enemy battery skedaddled, the brigade took the hill and dug in, and up came supporting Union guns. Chamberlain f