Letter from Joshua L. Chamberlain Requesting to Appear Before the Board of Examination in New York City

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Letter from Joshua L. Chamberlain Requesting to Appear Before the Board of Examination in New York City

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SNAC Resource ID: 11656358

National Archives at Washington, D.C

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Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 1828-1914

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Chamberlain was born in Brewer, Maine, the son of Sarah Dupee (née Brastow) and Joshua Chamberlain, on September 8, 1828. Chamberlain was of English ancestry and could trace his family line back to twelfth-century England, during the reign of King Stephen. Chamberlain's great-grandfather Ebenezer, was a New Hampshire soldier in the French and Indian War, and the American Revolutionary War. Chamberlain's grandfather Joshua, was a ship builder, and colonel during the War of 1812, before moving his...