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Infantry Regiment.
He is best remembered for two great events: the action
at Little Round Top, on the second day of Gettysburg (2 July
1863), when then-Colonel Chamberlain and the 20th Maine held
the extreme left flank of the Union line against a fierce
rebel attack, and the surrender of Lee's Army of Northern
Virginia at Appomattox, when Grant chose Chamberlain to
receive the formal surrender of weapons and colors (12 April
1865). Always a chivalrous man, Chamberlain had his men
salute the defeated Confederates as they marched by,
evidence of his admiration of their valor and of Grant's
wish to encourage the rebel armies still in the field to
accept the peace.
Although never forgotten in Maine, Chamberlain largely
faded from national view for most of the 20th century. No
statue of him was ever erected at Gettysburg; few historians
studied his campaigns. But amid the surge of interest in the
Civil War in the 1990s he has re-emerged as an exemplary
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