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Captain Julien Gaugot, U.S.A., Receiving Medal of
Honor from President Taft. Photo from Harris and
Ewing Collections, 1910-1912, Library of Congress.
Congressional Medal of Honor, second design.
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.

flank. Though the origin of the charge was afterwards debated, his last years, speaking and writing about the Civil War. His
Congress awarded Chamberlain the Medal of Honor for memoir of the Appomattox Campaign, The Passing of the
“conspicuous gallantry.”
Armies was published after his death in 1914. 5
Chamberlain went on to command a brigade of the Fifth Corps
until the end of the war. Chamberlain was wounded six times OTHER CIVIL WAR ERA AWARDS
throughout his war career, most grievously at Petersburg, Doctor Mary Edwards Walker is the only woman ever awarded
Virginia in June of 1864. Congress believing that his wound the Medal of Honor. Walker was born on November 26, 1832
was mortal promoted Chamberlain to the rank of Brigadier in Oswego, New York. After an early education in Fulton, New
General. The general, however, survived the wound and York she entered a traditionally male field by enrolling at
returned to the front in time to play a pivotal role in the Syracuse Medical College, graduating with a Doctor of
Appomattox Campaign. On April 12, 1865, General Medicine degree in 1855. Dr. Walker started a private practice
Chamberlain received the Confederate surrender of arms. in Columbus, Ohio then returned to her home state not long
Rising to the occasion, Chamberlain ordered his men to after where she married fellow physician Dr. Albert Miller.
salute their vanquished foes.
Soon after the Civil War began in 1861, began volunteering as a
After the war, the general returned to his beloved state of nurse at the Patent Office Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Maine where he served four terms as Governor. He later In 1862, she took a break to earn a degree from the New
served as president of Bowdoin College where he remained York Hygeio-Therapeutic College in New York City but soon
prolific and prosaic throughout his life. Chamberlain spent returned to the war effort.

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