The speech that rekindled loyalty and arguably won the US Civil War... Was not the Gettysburg address, it was the speech that Colonel Chamberlain gave to a large group of deserters that had been given to him the day before the biggest battle of the entire war. He desperately needed them to join his Northern Maine regiment for the upcoming battle.
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...in that battle many historians agree that it was Colonel Chamberlain’s holding of Little Round Top that won the day, and was the turning point in the whole war, in favor of the North.

 Within every organization there are personal leaders that can bring an significant impact on the operations and performance of personnel at the right time and place.  As a teacher I believe that I am a personal leader in my organization who works collaboratively with others to improve learning for all students.

This summer I had the opportunity to study leadership at the Army War College walk the battlefield of Gettysburg to study leadership and I was part of the Colonel Chamberlain Group.  I walked the hills of the little round tree and stood on the same terrain defended by the Maine regiment.  As an African American with maybe an understandable right to hate Confederate statues this trip and analysis of leadership realizes that it was the events of this war good and bad that remains in the history books as lessons learned that helped train thousands of Army and Marine officers for hundreds of years.