Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain on the 4th of July 1863

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain spent the 4th of July 1863 bearing his death. And six years later in 1889 he was on that hill again to dedicate a monument for his men, the men of the 20th Maine. Luckily we have some of the words that he spoke on that day. We stand on an awful arena where character, which was the growth of centuries, was tested and determined by the issues of a single day.