Maine-born Union major general (1828-1914) who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his defense of Little Round Top at Gettysburg. ALS signed “Joshua L. Chamberlain,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 6.5, May 9, 1909. Addressed from Brunswick, Maine, a handwritten letter to Colonel Nicholson, in full: “I leave a thank you for the trouble you have taken to meet my wish to procure a copy of my address on Loyalty, which I find awaiting my return home from Portland. I would gladly have shared you the expense of having this copied, as I have before informed you, and am ready now to reimburse you or the Commandery for the trouble and cost of this undertaking. Kindly give me the account, or amount, and I will at once respond.” In fine condition.
In his address delivered before the Commandery of the State of Pennsylvania, on February 22, 1866, in a speech entitled ‘Loyalty,’ Chamberlain entreated his listeners to not only cherish their memories of loyal and costly devotion, but to ‘pledge hearts anew to the faith of freedom under the law; to perpetuate the ascendancy of immortal ideas over temporal interests and passion; to celebrate the enfranchisement of the People.’ He optimistically asserted that ‘we know now what we are, and what we belong to, and what character is under the name of Country…What all this was for will made manifest; what we shall be will appear.’
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