 Pari gbolohun yii: Harriet Beecher Stowe bẹrẹ si ni kikọ iwe-kikọ rẹ ti o ni ipa ti o lodi si opolo, Uncle Toms Cabin, ni Brunswick lakoko ti ọkọ rẹ n kọ ẹkọ ni ile-ẹkọ giga, ati Brigadier General ati Brevet Major General Joshua Chamberlain, ọmọ ile-iwe Bowdoin kan ati olukọni, wa ni igbẹhin ti Army of Northern Virginia ni Appomattox Court House ni ọdun 1865. Chamberlain, ẹni tí wọn fún ní àmì ẹyẹ ògo, tó wá di gómìnà Maine, tó tún jẹ adjutant-general ti Maine, tó sì tún jẹ ààrẹ Bowdoin, jà ní : Gettysburg, níbi tó ti ń ṣe olórí àwọn ọmọ ogun Maine 20th tí wọn ń dáàbò bo Little Round Top. Major General Oliver Otis Howard, kilasi ti 1850, ṣe olori Ile-iṣẹ Freedmen lẹhin ogun ati lẹhinna da Ile-ẹkọ giga Howard; Gomina Massachusetts John Andrew, kilasi ti 1837, jẹ iduro fun iṣelọpọ ti 54th Massachusetts; ati William P. Fessenden 1823 ati Hugh McCulloch 1827 mejeeji ṣiṣẹ bi Akowe ti Iṣura lakoko Isakoso Lincoln. Sibẹsibẹ, ikopa ile-ẹkọ giga ni Ogun Abẹle jẹ adalu bi Bowdoin ti ni ọpọlọpọ awọn asopọ si iṣẹ ẹrú ati Confederacy. 