Chamberlain’s CMOH Found by Accident after 120 Years
If you look at Gettysburg as being the pivotal moment of the US Civil War, and the capture and defense of Little Round Top being the pivotal factor of it, than the most historically important man of that argument is Joshua Chamberlain.
A college professor who went off to war as a volunteer, he was appointed the commanding Colonel of the 20th Maine Regiment just a month before Gettysburg. There, on the 2nd Day at Gettysburg, he counter-charged the Confederates and held the strategic hill. Jeff Daniels played him in the Killer Angels/Gettysburg movie a few years ago.
Well, he didn’t receive his MOH until 1893 and until this month, that medal itself was lost to history.
But no longer. It was found in a church sale in the back of a book.
