Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-1914) was a pivotal figure — perhaps the pivotal figure — in the Union victory in the American Civil War. At least that's what you're taught if you're from his native Maine, where his actions leading the 20th Maine Infantry at Gettysburg are positioned as decisive in that battle and, thus, in the war. With an Alabama regiment sweeping toward the 20th Maine on the hill Little Round Top, and with his men low on ammunition, Chamberlain ordered a bayonet charge which captured more than 100 Confederates and defended the hill. With this action, the Union was saved.

Historians (at least those outside Maine) are less sure. There's little evidence he even made his famous "Bayonets!" yell; it may have been someone else's idea entirely. And even had the 20th Maine fallen, there were 12,000 other Union soldiers nearby and the fate of his unit was not anywhere close to save-the-Union importance. But Hollywood has been kind to Chamberlain; he was played by Jeff Daniels in the movies Gettysburg (1993) and Gods and Generals (2003) and portrayed as pivotally important. (Even in the Percy Jackson books!)

To be clear: not a bad dude or anything. Served four years as governor of Maine, was president of Bowdoin College, wounded six times in battle — good soldier, good man! Just didn't personally save the United States of America one afternoon.

One note about this embedding: Joshua Chamberlain had several walruses worth of mustache, in nearly every photograph ever taken of him. Stable Diffusion likes to give him odd, uneven mixes and styles of mustache hairs, so I'd suggest prompting in whatever direction you want — something like mustache:1.5 in either the positive or negative prompt, depending on your wishes. This embedding — made by request of @josephlevin40k948 — is based on 30 images cooked for a total of 300 steps on base SD 1.5: 16 vectors per token, a 0.004 learning rate, a batch size of 6, and 5 gradient steps.

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