AUBURN – Local Civil War expert Charles Plummer, in the persona of Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain, will discuss Maine’s role at the Battle of Gettysburg at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 26, at the Auburn Public Library.

During the evening the library will display its 42″ x 38″ bronze-on-marble Lincoln Memorial Tablet donated in 1908.

Plummer, as Chamberlain, will discuss the heroic role that Maine regiments played at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, a turning point in the Civil War.

Plummer will give a detailed account of the battlefield action, the casualties that each Maine regiment suffered and the names of the volunteers from Lewiston and Auburn who fought at Gettysburg.

He will also talk about the Lincoln Memorial Tablet, a gift presented to the library in 1908 by the Auburn members of Co. K, 17th Maine. The tablet was displayed until the 1970s and will be re-hung in its expanded and renovated facility.

Plummer’s specialty as a living historian is portraying Civil War personalities. He has traveled nationwide portraying such notable figures as Chamberlian, Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Gen. Stonewall Jackson, Gen. James Longstreet and Gen. William T. Sherman. Critics said his performances are “convincingly real” and that “he injects one into the Civil War era effectively and immediately.”

For more information call the library at 782-3191.