Lessons for Today from the American Civil War

A young Union officer, Joshua Chamberlain, leads a regiment that once numbered nearly 1,000 men but is less than 300 now. In addition, he has just been put in charge of 120 "mutineers." Like him, they are volunteers from Maine. They claim that their enlistments have expired and insist on going home. They are delivered to him having been marched at bayonet point with..