"We rose in soul...."

--Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at the Dedication of the Maine Monuments on the Battlefifield of Gettysburg

Dear Maine:

“We rose in soul above the things which even the Declaration of Independence pronounces the inalienable rights of human nature, for the securing of which governments are instituted among men. Happiness, liberty, life, we laid on the altar of offering, or committed to the furies of destruction, while our minds were lifted up to a great thought…