Chamberlain Fact about Joshua L chamberlain

Did you know that Harriet Beecher Stowe started writing Uncle Tom's Cabin in Appleton Hall, a dormitory at Bowdoin College, while her husband was a teacher there? Joshua Chamberlain was a student there at the time and became friends with Harriet and her husband Calvin.

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Did you know that Harriet Beecher Stowe started writing Uncle Tom's Cabin in Appleton Hall, a dormitory at Bowdoin College, while her husband was a teacher there? Joshua Chamberlain was a student there at the time and became friends with Harriet and her husband Calvin.

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More importantly, when Chamberlain took his "sabbatical" to join the army, he was occupying Professor Stowe's old position on the faculty.
 
Chamberlain moved into the house in Brunswick, Maine(where Bowdoin College is located), formerly occupied by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. You can visit the house now, recently was recently turned into a museum.
 
I think that it is a myth :smile:

Chamberlain lived to be 85.5 years old. Wounds don't "linger" for 50 years, and folks with "lingering" wounds don't make it to almost 86 years old. He did have severe side-effect from his groin area wounds that required 4 procedures, but it was not 'lingering' by any means.

Here is a good writeup on Chamberlain's wounds from the Journal of Urology. The cause of death listed on Chamberlain's death certificate is "a bacterial infection throughout his entire body probably caused originally by a urinary tract infection.” These days that would be called sepsis and elderly, especially that old, are at risk. The fact that it may had started as a UTI instead of, let's say a skin infection, is secondary.
 
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