Joshua Chamberlain and the Civil War: At Every Hazard is about one of that war’s genuine heroes, a college professor with no formal military training who, together with a small company of men, turned the tide of the battle and the war with a bayonet charge at Gettysburg. This was not the end of his exploits, however, and by war’s end, he was so respected that Ulysses S. Grant chose Chamberlain to accept the South’s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.
The novel traces his evolution from an arrogant, overbearing professor to unwitting and unlikely hero and leader of men. Interwoven are subplots including the coming of age of a young orphaned aide, a complicated marriage, and of course, rousing battle scenes.
Matthew Langdon Cost graduated with a B.A. in history from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He has since published two mystery novels, Mainely Power and Mainely Fear. Joshua Chamberlain and the Civil War: At Every Hazard was published in April of 2015. Cost was a business owner for ten years in Brunswick, Maine. Later on he became a middle school social studies teacher for ten years, and has now dedicated himself to life as a writer.
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