Why Join the 20th Maine?
This is a different kind of army. If you look back at history you will see men
fighting for pay, for women, for some other kind of loot. They fight for land,
power, cause a king tells them or just because they light killing. We are here
for something new, this has not happened much in the history of the war.
We are a man out to set other men free. America should be free ground, all of
it, not divided be a line between slave state and free, all the way. From here
to the Pacific Ocean, no man has to bow, no man born to royalty. Here we judge
you on what you do, not who your father was.
Here you can be something, here is the place to build a home, but its not the
land, there is always more land. It?s the idea that we all have value, you and
me. What we are fighting for, in the end, we are fighting for each other.
Some came mainly because we were bored at home, thought this looked like it
might be fun. Some came because we were ashamed not to. Many of us came because
it was the right thing to do. And all of us have seen men die. The thing is, you
cannot judge a race. Any man who judges by the group is a pea wit. You take men
one at a time.
Actual Quote, Joshua L. Chamberlain
now the fun part..
