Prior to the last 24hrs... Bowdoin, ME was best known for...

[WarGamer]

Civil War HERO, Joshua Chamberlain... Brigadier GENERAL Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine anchored the left flank of the Union Army at Gettysburg at Little Round Top. They held the line like a stone wall as their position was assaulted by Confederate forces several times... when the defenders were mostly out of ammo and still under attack, they attached bayonets and charged DOWN the hill sending the Confederates scattering or surrendering...

Chamberlain attended Bowdoin College, later serving as an instructor and then Professor... and after the war, as the President of Bowdoin College.

[cachukis]

1. He was actually from Brewer, across the river from Bangor.

He ended up in Brunswick, home of Bowdoin College.
Bowdoin, Me, a small area, is north of Brunswick and is now famous for Robert Card.

[WarGamer]

2. I know... but the Bowdoin College connection is well known.

[cachukis]

3. Yes. And his story is truly heroic. May have saved the Union.

[WarGamer]

4. absolutely 100%

If Lee rolled up the Union flank... could have triggered a rout.

[MissMillie]

5. A hero of "Little Round Top"

Part of the battle of Gettysburgh


Ran out of ammo.... won w/ a bayonette charge.

[Sneederbunk]

6. Bowdoin College is in Brunswick Maine.

[WarGamer]

9. I see... just down the road. Kinda like how UCLA is actually in Westwood?

[2naSalit]

7. I lived there when I was a kid...

And my parents rented a house from the Card family who ran the dairy farm up the road from us. This perp looks a lot like the landlord/farmer, maybe a grandkid. They had a large chunk of land.

I'm sure it's not much like it was then but the old families are still around in many cases. The Cards are one of those.

[WarGamer]

8. Wow... close to home, so to speak...

[2naSalit]

10. In a...

Strange way, yeah. I remember a lot about living there. I never met any of the Card kids, just the older guy when he sold us milk... the kind with the cream on top.

We lived there for a couple years, saw my first moose there. Their land is up in the hills north of Brunswick, I remember it took about a ten minutes to get to the paved road and another half hour to get to Brunswick across the river that stunk to high heaven. There were plenty of wooded areas too.

[WarGamer]

11. I wonder if pollution levels are low enough now that the river is healthy??

[2naSalit]

12. It is...

Much has changed in that regard. There were textile and paper mills right there on the river's edge as far as you could see, there was a dam there too. And up river was logging so the rivers were heavily trashed for some time but the Clean Water Act changed that, thankfully. Many of the rivers in New England were in bad shape by the 1960s.

[WarGamer]

13. great news...

[H2O Man]

14. Lewiston was best known

for the May 25, 1965 rematch between heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali an former champ Sonny Liston. The fight had originally going to be held in Philly in late '64, but Ali had emergency surgery for a hernia a few days before. Due to conflicts between the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X -- including Malcolm's murder -- Philly opted out of the later date.