and i wanted to meet ben hansford of the gettysburg to understand fully exactly what is taking place. they won't give you the exact date, but they will say spring 2024. yet the vagaries of american memory had rendered reputation lost until a remarkable triumph over the ken burns civil war documentary, the novel killer angels and jeff daniels portrayal chamberlain in the movie gettysburg brought his reputation back life. but if his reputation has been restored, i came to believe. as i started six years of research writing, i would wake at 3:00 in the morning thinking chamberlain, that that his story has been almost like zoom lens focusing almost on gettysburg. and yet i believe as i learn to appreciate this person that his life after the civil war probably more than any other civil war veteran embraced more different and varied professor governor college president lecture writer and amazing life. and yet when i started the project i also learned very quickly this was going be a prickly project for if chamberlain had these legions of fans he had his critics both then and now did he fabr