Maine Roads to Appomattox: How Soldiers from the Pine Tree State Helped the Army of the Potomac Defeat Robert E. Lee and End the Civil War

“It is a time when every man should stand by his guns. And I am not scared or hurt enough yet to be willing to face to the rear when other men are marching to the front.” —Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

In Maine Roads to Gettysburg, Tom Huntington began the story of Maine in the Civil War, following soldiers from the towns and farms of the Pine Tree State to the bloody fields of Gettysburg, where Mainers like Joshua Chamberlain and Oliver Howard helped stem the Confederate tide in July 1863. No...