Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain deserves a statue because of his work as a professor, colonel, and governor. Chamberlain was a professor of languages, religion, moral philosophy, and rhetoric at Bowdoin College. He would go on to teach every subject but math and science. After he returned from the war in 1871, Chamberlain was voted president at Bowdoin. Chamberlain was not the first in his family to become an American soldier so it does not come as a surprise that he went to a military academy for high school and would later fight in the Union. Chamberlain proved that he is worthy of a statue at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Chamberlain, the Colonel, commanded his 20th Maine to defend the hill called Little Round Top but were weak and