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the summit of Little Round Top at 7:30 P.M. July 3rd, 1863", painting by <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Forbes" title="Edwin Forbes">Edwin Forbes</a>, showing 1st Lt. <a href="/wiki/Charles_E._Hazlett" title="Charles E. Hazlett">Charles E. Hazlett</a>'s <a href="/wiki/5th_U.S._Artillery,_Battery_D" title="5th U.S. Artillery, Battery D">5th U.S. Artillery, Battery D</a> in action.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><table style="width:100%;margin:0;padding:0;border:0;display:inline-table"><tbody><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Date</th><td>July 2, 1863</td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Location</th><td><div class="location"><a href="/wiki/Gettysburg,_Pennsylvania" title="Gettysburg, Pennsylvania">Gettysburg, Pennsylvania</a></div></td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Result</th><td class="status"> Union victory</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Belligerents</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><img alt="United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281863-1865%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281863-1865%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281863-1865%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281863-1865%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281863-1865%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281863-1865%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" title="Union (American Civil War)">United States of America</a></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America"><img alt="Confederate States of America" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_%281863%E2%80%931865%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_%281863%E2%80%931865%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_%281863%E2%80%931865%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_%281863%E2%80%931865%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_%281863%E2%80%931865%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_%281863%E2%80%931865%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate States of America</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Commanders and leaders</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gouverneur_K._Warren" title="Gouverneur K. Warren">G. K. Warren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strong_Vincent" title="Strong Vincent">Strong Vincent</a> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Old English Text MT',serif"><b>†</b></span></a></li></ul> </div></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Evander_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Evander Law">Evander Law</a></li> <li>James L. Sheffield</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Strength</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> 2,996 troops</td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> 4,864 troops</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Casualties and losses</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>134 killed</li> <li>402 wounded</li> <li>29 missing</li></ul> </div></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>279 killed</li> <li>868 wounded</li> <li>219 missing</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Little Round Top</b> is the smaller of two rocky hills south of <a href="/wiki/Gettysburg,_Pennsylvania" title="Gettysburg, Pennsylvania">Gettysburg, Pennsylvania</a>—the companion to the adjacent, taller hill named <a href="/wiki/Big_Round_Top" title="Big Round Top">Big Round Top</a>. It was the site of an unsuccessful assault by <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" title="Confederate States Army">Confederate</a> troops against the <a href="/wiki/Union_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Army">Union</a> left flank on July 2, 1863, the second day of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg" title="Battle of Gettysburg">Battle of Gettysburg</a>, during the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>. </p><p>Little Round Top was successfully defended by a brigade under <a href="/wiki/Colonel_(United_States)" title="Colonel (United States)">Colonel</a> <a href="/wiki/Strong_Vincent" title="Strong Vincent">Strong Vincent</a>, who was mortally wounded during the fighting and died five days later. The <a href="/wiki/20th_Maine_Volunteer_Infantry_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment">20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment</a>, commanded by Colonel <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Lawrence_Chamberlain" class="mw-redirect" title="Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain">Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain</a>, fought its most famous engagement there, culminating in a dramatic downhill <a href="/wiki/Bayonet" title="Bayonet">bayonet</a> charge. The battle at Little Round Top subsequently became one of the most well-known actions at Gettysburg, and of the entire war. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Little_Round_Top&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Gettysburg_Battlefield" title="Gettysburg Battlefield">Gettysburg Battlefield</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Round_Tops_panorama_1909.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Round_Tops_panorama_1909.jpg/400px-Round_Tops_panorama_1909.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Round_Tops_panorama_1909.jpg/600px-Round_Tops_panorama_1909.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Round_Tops_panorama_1909.jpg/800px-Round_Tops_panorama_1909.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2386" data-file-height="703" /></a><figcaption>Little Round Top (left) and [Big] Round Top, photographed from Plum Run Valley in 1909</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Littleroundtop.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Littleroundtop.JPG/400px-Littleroundtop.JPG" decoding="async" width="400" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Littleroundtop.JPG/600px-Littleroundtop.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Littleroundtop.JPG/800px-Littleroundtop.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="905" /></a><figcaption>Little Round Top photographed in 2006</figcaption></figure> <p>Little Round Top is a large <a href="/wiki/Diabase" title="Diabase">diabase</a> spur of <a href="/wiki/Big_Round_Top" title="Big Round Top">Big Round Top</a><sup id="cite_ref-BaltimoreSun_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BaltimoreSun-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with an oval crest that forms a short ridgeline with a summit of 63 ft (19 m) prominence above the saddle point<sup id="cite_ref-Elevation_Query_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Elevation_Query-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to Big Round Top to the south. It is located in <a href="/wiki/Cumberland_Township,_Adams_County,_Pennsylvania" title="Cumberland Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania">Cumberland Township</a>, approximately two miles (3 km) south of Gettysburg, with a rugged, steep slope rising 150 feet (46 m) above nearby Plum Run to the west and strewn with large boulders.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The summit is a total of 650 feet (200 m) above sea level. Historically, the western slope was generally free of vegetation, while the summit and eastern and southern slopes were lightly wooded. Directly to the south is Big Round Top, 130 feet (40 m) higher and densely wooded.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Igneous" class="mw-redirect" title="Igneous">igneous</a> landform <a href="/wiki/Triassic%E2%80%93Jurassic_extinction_event" title="Triassic–Jurassic extinction event">was created 200 million years ago</a> when the "outcrop of the <a href="/wiki/Devil%27s_Den#Description" title="Devil's Den">Gettysburg sill</a>" intruded through the <a href="/wiki/Newark_Supergroup" title="Newark Supergroup">Triassic "Gettysburg plain"</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Brown_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brown-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 13">: 13 </span></sup> Subsequent <a href="/wiki/Periglacial" class="mw-redirect" title="Periglacial">periglacial</a> <a href="/wiki/Frost_wedging" class="mw-redirect" title="Frost wedging">frost wedging</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Pleistocene" title="Pleistocene">Pleistocene</a> formed the hill's extensive boulders.<sup id="cite_ref-nature_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nature-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is no evidence that the name "Little Round Top" was used by soldiers or civilians during the battle, although Col. Franklin A. Haskell, writing to his brother on July 16, 1863, calls it so.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although the larger hill was known before the battle as Round Top, Round Top Mountain, and sometimes Round Hill, accounts written in 1863 referred to the smaller hill with a variety of names: Rock Hill, High Knob, Sugar Loaf Hill, Broad Top Summit, and granite spur of Round Top.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Historian <a href="/wiki/John_B._Bachelder" title="John B. Bachelder">John B. Bachelder</a>, who had an enormous influence on the preservation of the Gettysburg battlefield, personally favored the name "Weed's Hill", in honor of <a href="/wiki/Brigadier_general_(United_States)" title="Brigadier general (United States)">Brigadier General</a> <a href="/wiki/Stephen_H._Weed" title="Stephen H. Weed">Stephen H. Weed</a>, who was mortally wounded on Little Round Top. Bachelder abandoned that name by 1873. One of the first public uses of "Little Round Top" was by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Everett" title="Edward Everett">Edward Everett</a> in his oration at the dedication of the <a href="/wiki/Gettysburg_National_Cemetery" title="Gettysburg National Cemetery">Soldiers' National Cemetery</a> on November 19, 1863.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Battle_of_Gettysburg">Battle of Gettysburg</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Little_Round_Top&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Battle of Gettysburg"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg,_second_day" title="Battle of Gettysburg, second day">Battle of Gettysburg, second day</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Gettysburg_Confederate_order_of_battle" class="mw-redirect" title="Gettysburg Confederate order of battle">Confederate order of battle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gettysburg_Union_order_of_battle" class="mw-redirect" title="Gettysburg Union order of battle">Union order of battle</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Little_Round_Top_1863.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Little_Round_Top_1863.jpg/220px-Little_Round_Top_1863.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Little_Round_Top_1863.jpg/330px-Little_Round_Top_1863.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Little_Round_Top_1863.jpg/440px-Little_Round_Top_1863.jpg 2x" data-file-width="854" data-file-height="672" /></a><figcaption>Little Round Top, western slope, photographed by <a href="/wiki/Timothy_H._O%27Sullivan" title="Timothy H. O'Sullivan">Timothy H. O'Sullivan</a>, 1863</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Abraham_Lincoln_and_the_battles_of_the_Civil_War_(1887)_(14576134130).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Abraham_Lincoln_and_the_battles_of_the_Civil_War_%281887%29_%2814576134130%29.jpg/220px-Abraham_Lincoln_and_the_battles_of_the_Civil_War_%281887%29_%2814576134130%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Abraham_Lincoln_and_the_battles_of_the_Civil_War_%281887%29_%2814576134130%29.jpg/330px-Abraham_Lincoln_and_the_battles_of_the_Civil_War_%281887%29_%2814576134130%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Abraham_Lincoln_and_the_battles_of_the_Civil_War_%281887%29_%2814576134130%29.jpg/440px-Abraham_Lincoln_and_the_battles_of_the_Civil_War_%281887%29_%2814576134130%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="2241" /></a><figcaption>Looking from the position of Hazlett's Battery on Little Round Top toward the Valley of Death</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:From_Little_Round_Top,_overloooking_the_Valley_of_Death,_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views_2.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/From_Little_Round_Top%2C_overloooking_the_Valley_of_Death%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views_2.png/220px-From_Little_Round_Top%2C_overloooking_the_Valley_of_Death%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views_2.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/From_Little_Round_Top%2C_overloooking_the_Valley_of_Death%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views_2.png/330px-From_Little_Round_Top%2C_overloooking_the_Valley_of_Death%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views_2.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/From_Little_Round_Top%2C_overloooking_the_Valley_of_Death%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views_2.png/440px-From_Little_Round_Top%2C_overloooking_the_Valley_of_Death%2C_from_Robert_N._Dennis_collection_of_stereoscopic_views_2.png 2x" data-file-width="2737" data-file-height="1405" /></a><figcaption>Looking from Little Round Top toward the Valley of Death (Devil's Den would be located in the left background)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WarrenStatueGettysburg.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/WarrenStatueGettysburg.jpg/220px-WarrenStatueGettysburg.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/WarrenStatueGettysburg.jpg/330px-WarrenStatueGettysburg.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/WarrenStatueGettysburg.jpg/440px-WarrenStatueGettysburg.jpg 2x" data-file-width="853" data-file-height="1092" /></a><figcaption>Monument of General Warren overlooking the battlefield from Little Round Top</figcaption></figure> <p>On the second day of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg" title="Battle of Gettysburg">Battle of Gettysburg</a>, July 2, 1863, at about 4 PM, Confederate <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_General_(CSA)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant General (CSA)">Lt. Gen.</a> <a href="/wiki/James_Longstreet" title="James Longstreet">James Longstreet</a>'s First Corps began an attack ordered by General <a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Lee" title="Robert E. Lee">Robert E. Lee</a> that was intended to drive northeast up the Emmitsburg Road in the direction of Cemetery Hill, rolling up the Union left flank.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Major_General_(CSA)" class="mw-redirect" title="Major General (CSA)">Maj. Gen.</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Bell_Hood" title="John Bell Hood">John Bell Hood</a>'s division was assigned to attack up the eastern side of the road, Maj. Gen. <a href="/wiki/Lafayette_McLaws" title="Lafayette McLaws">Lafayette McLaws</a>'s division the western side. Hood's division stepped off first, but instead of guiding on the road, elements began to swing directly to the east in the direction of the Round Tops. Instead of driving the entire division up the spine of Houck's Ridge (the boulder-strewn area known to the soldiers as the <a href="/wiki/Devil%27s_Den" title="Devil's Den">Devil's Den</a>), parts of Hood's division detoured over Round Top and approached the southern slope of Little Round Top.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Little_Round_Top_Edwin_Forbes.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Little_Round_Top_Edwin_Forbes.jpg/220px-Little_Round_Top_Edwin_Forbes.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="104" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Little_Round_Top_Edwin_Forbes.jpg/330px-Little_Round_Top_Edwin_Forbes.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Little_Round_Top_Edwin_Forbes.jpg/440px-Little_Round_Top_Edwin_Forbes.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1461" data-file-height="688" /></a><figcaption><i>Attack on Little Round Top held by the 5th Corps commanded by General Sykes</i>, painting by <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Forbes" title="Edwin Forbes">Edwin Forbes</a>. Forbes has incorrectly depicted [Big] Round Top with two peaks.</figcaption></figure> <p>There were four probable reasons for the deviation in the division's direction: first, regiments from the <a href="/wiki/III_Corps_(Union_Army)" class="mw-redirect" title="III Corps (Union Army)">Union III Corps</a> were unexpectedly in the <a href="/wiki/Devil%27s_Den" title="Devil's Den">Devil's Den</a> area and they would threaten Hood's right flank if they were not dealt with; second, fire from the <a href="/wiki/2nd_United_States_Volunteer_Sharpshooter_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="2nd United States Volunteer Sharpshooter Regiment">2nd U.S. Sharpshooters</a> at Slyder's farm drew the attention of lead elements of Brig. Gen. <a href="/wiki/Evander_M._Law" title="Evander M. Law">Evander M. Law</a>'s brigade, moving in pursuit and drawing his brigade to the right; third, the terrain was rough and units naturally lost their parade-ground alignments; finally, Hood's senior subordinate, General Law, was unaware that Hood had been wounded and he was now in command of the division, so he did not exercise control.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the meantime, Little Round Top was undefended by Union troops. Maj. Gen. <a href="/wiki/George_Meade" title="George Meade">George Meade</a>, commander of the <a href="/wiki/Army_of_the_Potomac" title="Army of the Potomac">Army of the Potomac</a>, had ordered Maj. Gen. <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Sickles" title="Daniel Sickles">Daniel Sickles</a>' <a href="/wiki/III_Corps_(Union_Army)" class="mw-redirect" title="III Corps (Union Army)">III Corps</a> to defend the southern end of Cemetery Ridge, which would have just included Little Round Top. Sickles, defying Meade's orders, moved his corps a few hundred yards west to the Emmitsburg Road and the Peach Orchard. This caused a large <a href="/wiki/Salient_(military)" title="Salient (military)">salient</a> in the line, which was also too long to defend properly. His left flank was anchored in Devil's Den.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Meade discovered this situation, he dispatched his chief engineer, Brig. Gen. <a href="/wiki/Gouverneur_K._Warren" title="Gouverneur K. Warren">Gouverneur K. Warren</a>, to attempt to deal with the situation south of Sickles' position. Climbing Little Round Top, Warren found only a small <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Signal_Corps" title="United States Army Signal Corps">Signal Corps</a> station there. He saw the glint of bayonets in the sun to the southwest and realized that a Confederate assault into the Union flank was imminent. He hurriedly sent staff officers, including <a href="/wiki/Washington_Roebling" title="Washington Roebling">Washington Roebling</a>, to find help from any available units in the vicinity.<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The response to this request for help came from Maj. Gen. <a href="/wiki/George_Sykes" title="George Sykes">George Sykes</a>, commander of the <a href="/wiki/V_Corps_(Union_Army)" class="mw-redirect" title="V Corps (Union Army)">Union V Corps</a>. Sykes quickly dispatched a messenger to order his 1st Division, commanded by Brig. Gen. <a href="/wiki/James_Barnes_(general)" title="James Barnes (general)">James Barnes</a>, to Little Round Top. Before the messenger could reach Barnes, he encountered Col. <a href="/wiki/Strong_Vincent" title="Strong Vincent">Strong Vincent</a>, commander of the 3rd Brigade, who seized the initiative and directed his four regiments to Little Round Top without waiting for permission from Barnes. He and Oliver W. Norton, the brigade bugler, galloped ahead to <a href="/wiki/Reconnaissance" title="Reconnaissance">reconnoiter</a> and guide his four regiments into position.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Upon arrival on Little Round Top, Vincent and Norton received fire from Confederate batteries almost immediately. On the western slope, he placed the <a href="/wiki/16th_Michigan_Volunteer_Infantry_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="16th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment">16th Michigan</a>, and then proceeding counterclockwise were the <a href="/wiki/44th_New_York_Volunteer_Infantry_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="44th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment">44th New York</a>, the <a href="/wiki/83rd_Pennsylvania_Infantry" class="mw-redirect" title="83rd Pennsylvania Infantry">83rd Pennsylvania</a>, and finally, at the end of the line on the southern slope, the <a href="/wiki/20th_Maine_Volunteer_Infantry_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment">20th Maine</a>. Arriving only ten minutes before the Confederates, Vincent ordered his brigade to take cover and wait, and he ordered Col. <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Lawrence_Chamberlain" class="mw-redirect" title="Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain">Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain</a>, commander of the 20th Maine, to hold his position, the extreme left of the Army of the Potomac, at all costs. Chamberlain and his 385 men<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> waited for what was to come.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Battle_of_Little_Round_Top">Battle of Little Round Top</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Little_Round_Top&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Battle of Little Round Top"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gettysburg_Little_Round_Top_1630.pdf" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Gettysburg_Little_Round_Top_1630.pdf/page1-350px-Gettysburg_Little_Round_Top_1630.pdf.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Gettysburg_Little_Round_Top_1630.pdf/page1-525px-Gettysburg_Little_Round_Top_1630.pdf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Gettysburg_Little_Round_Top_1630.pdf/page1-700px-Gettysburg_Little_Round_Top_1630.pdf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1266" /></a><figcaption>Battle of Little Round Top, initial assault <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#ff0000; color:black;"> </span> Confederate</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#0000ff; color:white;"> </span> Union</div> </figcaption></figure> <p>The approaching Confederates were the <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a> Brigade of Hood's Division, commanded by Brig. Gen. <a href="/wiki/Evander_M._Law" title="Evander M. Law">Evander M. Law</a>. (As the battle progressed and Law realized he was in command of the division, Col. James L. Sheffield was eventually notified to assume brigade command.) Dispatching the 4th, 15th, and 47th Alabama, and the <a href="/wiki/4th_Texas_Infantry_Regiment" title="4th Texas Infantry Regiment">4th</a> and <a href="/wiki/5th_Texas_Infantry_Regiment" title="5th Texas Infantry Regiment">5th Texas</a> to Little Round Top, Law ordered his men to take the hill. The men were exhausted, having marched more than 20 miles (32 km) that day to reach this point. The day was hot and their canteens were empty; Law's order to move out reached them before they could refill their water.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Approaching the Union line on the crest of the hill, Law's men were thrown back by the first Union volley and withdrew briefly to regroup. The <a href="/wiki/15th_Regiment_Alabama_Infantry" class="mw-redirect" title="15th Regiment Alabama Infantry">15th Alabama</a>, commanded by Col. <a href="/wiki/William_C._Oates" title="William C. Oates">William C. Oates</a>, repositioned further right and attempted to find the Union left flank.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The left flank consisted of the 386 officers and men of the 20th Maine regiment and the 83rd Pennsylvania. Seeing the Confederates shifting around his flank, Chamberlain first stretched his line to the point where his men were in a single-file line, then ordered the southernmost half of his line to swing back during a lull following another Confederate charge. It was there that they "refused the line"—formed an angle to the main line in an attempt to prevent the Confederate flanking maneuver. Despite heavy losses, the 20th Maine held through two subsequent charges by the 15th Alabama and other Confederate regiments for a total of ninety minutes.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Chamberlain (knowing that his men were out of ammunition, his numbers were being depleted, and his men would not be able to repulse another Confederate charge) ordered his men to equip bayonets and counterattack. He ordered his left flank, which had been pulled back, to advance in a 'right-wheel forward' maneuver. As soon as they were in line with the rest of the regiment, the remainder of the regiment would charge akin to a door swinging shut. This simultaneous <a href="/wiki/Frontal_assault" title="Frontal assault">frontal assault</a> and <a href="/wiki/Flanking_maneuver" title="Flanking maneuver">flanking maneuver</a> halted and captured a good portion of the 15th Alabama.<sup id="cite_ref-D6971_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-D6971-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While Chamberlain ordered the advance, Lieutenant <a href="/wiki/Holman_S._Melcher" class="mw-redirect" title="Holman S. Melcher">Holman Melcher</a> spontaneously and separate to Chamberlain's command initiated a charge from the center of the line that further aided the regiment's efforts.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Governor_William_Calvin_Oates.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Governor_William_Calvin_Oates.jpg/200px-Governor_William_Calvin_Oates.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Governor_William_Calvin_Oates.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="290" data-file-height="387" /></a><figcaption>LTC <a href="/wiki/William_C._Oates" title="William C. Oates">William C. Oates</a>, commander of the 15th Alabama Infantry from spring 1863 to July 1864</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Joshua_Chamberlain_-_Brady-Handy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Joshua_Chamberlain_-_Brady-Handy.jpg/170px-Joshua_Chamberlain_-_Brady-Handy.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="192" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Joshua_Chamberlain_-_Brady-Handy.jpg/255px-Joshua_Chamberlain_-_Brady-Handy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Joshua_Chamberlain_-_Brady-Handy.jpg/340px-Joshua_Chamberlain_-_Brady-Handy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3713" data-file-height="4191" /></a><figcaption> <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Chamberlain" title="Joshua Chamberlain">Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain</a> ordered the bayonet charge on Little Round Top.</figcaption></figure> <p>During their retreat, the Confederates were subjected to a volley of rifle fire from Company B of the 20th Maine, commanded by Captain <a href="/wiki/Walter_G._Morrill" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter G. Morrill">Walter G. Morrill</a>, and a few of the 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters, who had been placed by Chamberlain behind a stone wall 150 yards to the east, hoping to guard against an envelopment. This group, who had been hidden from sight, caused considerable confusion in the Confederate ranks.<sup id="cite_ref-D6971_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-D6971-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Thirty years later, Chamberlain received a <a href="/wiki/Medal_of_Honor" title="Medal of Honor">Medal of Honor</a> for his conduct in the defense of Little Round Top. The citation read that it was awarded for "daring heroism and great tenacity in holding his position on the Little Round Top against repeated assaults, and ordering the advance position on the Great Round Top."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gettysburg_Little_Round_Top_1700.pdf" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Gettysburg_Little_Round_Top_1700.pdf/page1-350px-Gettysburg_Little_Round_Top_1700.pdf.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Gettysburg_Little_Round_Top_1700.pdf/page1-525px-Gettysburg_Little_Round_Top_1700.pdf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Gettysburg_Little_Round_Top_1700.pdf/page1-700px-Gettysburg_Little_Round_Top_1700.pdf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1266" /></a><figcaption>Battle of Little Round Top: final assault</figcaption></figure> <p>Despite this victory, the rest of the Union regiments on the hill were in dire straits. While the Alabamians had pressed their attacks on the Union left, the 4th and 5th Texas were attacking Vincent's 16th Michigan on the Union right. Rallying the crumbling regiment (the smallest in his brigade, with only 263 men) several times, Vincent was mortally wounded during one Texas charge and was succeeded by Colonel <a href="/wiki/James_C._Rice" class="mw-redirect" title="James C. Rice">James C. Rice</a>. Vincent died on July 7, but not before receiving a deathbed promotion to brigadier general.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Before the <a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michiganders</a> could be demoralized, <a href="/wiki/Reinforcements" class="mw-redirect" title="Reinforcements">reinforcements</a> summoned by Warren—who had continued on to find more troops to defend the hill—had arrived in the form of the <a href="/wiki/140th_New_York_Volunteer_Infantry_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="140th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment">140th New York</a> and a battery of four guns—<a href="/wiki/5th_U.S._Light_Artillery,_Battery_D" class="mw-redirect" title="5th U.S. Light Artillery, Battery D">Battery D, 5th U.S. Artillery</a>, commanded by Lt. <a href="/wiki/Charles_E._Hazlett" title="Charles E. Hazlett">Charles E. Hazlett</a>. (Simply maneuvering these guns by hand up the steep and rocky slope of the hill was an amazing achievement. However, this effort had little effect on the action of July 2. The artillerymen were exposed to constant <a href="/wiki/Sniper" title="Sniper">sniper</a> fire and could not work effectively. More significantly, however, they could not depress their barrels sufficiently to defend against incoming infantry attacks.)<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 140th charged into the fray, driving the Texans back and securing victory for the Union forces on the hill. Col. <a href="/wiki/Patrick_O%27Rorke" title="Patrick O'Rorke">Patrick "Paddy" O'Rorke</a>, who personally led his regiment in the charge, was killed. Reinforced further by Stephen Weed's brigade of the <a href="/wiki/V_Corps_(Union_Army)" class="mw-redirect" title="V Corps (Union Army)">V Corps</a>, Union forces held the hill throughout the rest of the battle, enduring persistent fire from Confederate sharpshooters stationed around Devil's Den. General Weed was among the victims, and as his old friend Charles Hazlett leaned over to comfort Weed, the artilleryman was also shot dead.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Evening_and_July_3">Evening and July 3</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Little_Round_Top&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Evening and July 3"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Views_from_the_battle_field_of_Gettysburg,_July_1st,_2d,_and..._(3110018913).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Views_from_the_battle_field_of_Gettysburg%2C_July_1st%2C_2d%2C_and..._%283110018913%29.jpg/220px-Views_from_the_battle_field_of_Gettysburg%2C_July_1st%2C_2d%2C_and..._%283110018913%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Views_from_the_battle_field_of_Gettysburg%2C_July_1st%2C_2d%2C_and..._%283110018913%29.jpg/330px-Views_from_the_battle_field_of_Gettysburg%2C_July_1st%2C_2d%2C_and..._%283110018913%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Views_from_the_battle_field_of_Gettysburg%2C_July_1st%2C_2d%2C_and..._%283110018913%29.jpg/440px-Views_from_the_battle_field_of_Gettysburg%2C_July_1st%2C_2d%2C_and..._%283110018913%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="760" data-file-height="604" /></a><figcaption>Little Round Top aka "Granite Hill" Tyson picture taken about 1863</figcaption></figure> <p>Later that day, Little Round Top was the site of constant <a href="/wiki/Skirmisher" title="Skirmisher">skirmishing</a>. It was fortified by Weed's brigade, five regiments of the Pennsylvania Reserves, and an <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a> <a href="/wiki/Artillery" title="Artillery">battery</a> of six guns. Most of the stone breastworks that are currently visible on the hill were constructed by these troops after the fighting stopped. Troops of the <a href="/wiki/II_Corps_(Union_Army)" class="mw-redirect" title="II Corps (Union Army)">II</a>, <a href="/wiki/V_Corps_(Union_Army)" class="mw-redirect" title="V Corps (Union Army)">V</a>, <a href="/wiki/VI_Corps_(Union_Army)" class="mw-redirect" title="VI Corps (Union Army)">VI</a>, and <a href="/wiki/XII_Corps_(Union_Army)" class="mw-redirect" title="XII Corps (Union Army)">XII Corps</a> passed through the area and also occupied Round Top.<sup id="cite_ref-A15_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A15-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Little Round Top was the starting point for a Union counterattack at dusk on July 2, conducted by the 3rd Division of the V Corps (the Pennsylvania Reserves) under Brig. Gen. <a href="/wiki/Samuel_W._Crawford" title="Samuel W. Crawford">Samuel W. Crawford</a>, launched to the west in the direction of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg,_Second_Day#Wheatfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Gettysburg, Second Day">Wheatfield</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Little_Round_Top_101215.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Little_Round_Top_101215.jpg/220px-Little_Round_Top_101215.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Little_Round_Top_101215.jpg/330px-Little_Round_Top_101215.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Little_Round_Top_101215.jpg/440px-Little_Round_Top_101215.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="1674" /></a><figcaption>Little Round Top viewed from near <a href="/wiki/Devil%27s_Den" title="Devil's Den">Devil's Den</a></figcaption></figure> <p>On July 3, Hazlett's battery (six <a href="/wiki/10-pounder_Parrott_rifle" title="10-pounder Parrott rifle">10-pounder Parrott rifles</a>, now under the command of Lt. <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_F._Rittenhouse" title="Benjamin F. Rittenhouse">Benjamin F. Rittenhouse</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> fired into the flank of the Confederate assault known as <a href="/wiki/Pickett%27s_Charge" title="Pickett's Charge">Pickett's Charge</a>. Near the end of that engagement, General Meade observed from Little Round Top and contemplated his options for a possible counterattack against Lee.<sup id="cite_ref-A15_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A15-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Impact">Impact</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Little_Round_Top&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Impact"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Of the 2,996 Union troops engaged at Little Round Top, there were 565 casualties (134 killed, 402 wounded, 29 missing); Confederate losses of 4,864 engaged were 1,185 (279 killed, 868 wounded, 219 missing).<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While agreeing that the fighting on Little Round Top was extremely fierce and soldiers on both sides fought valiantly, historians disagree as to the impact of this particular engagement on the overall outcome of the Battle of Gettysburg.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The traditional view—one that emerged in the 1880s<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—is that the left flank of the Union Army was a crucial position. An example of this view is from 1900: "If the Confederates had seized [Little Round Top] and dragged some of their artillery up there, as they easily could have done, they would have enfiladed Meade's entire line and made it too unhealthy for him to remain there."<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An alternative claim is that the hill's terrain offered a poor platform for artillery, and that had Longstreet secured the hill, the Union Army would have been forced back to a better defensive position, making the attack on the hill a distraction from the Confederates' true objective. This latter theory is supported by General Lee's writings, in which he appears to have considered Little Round Top irrelevant. In Lee's report after the <a href="/wiki/Gettysburg_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Gettysburg Campaign">Gettysburg Campaign</a>, he stated in part, "General Longstreet was delayed by a force occupying the high, rocky hills on the enemy's extreme left, from which his troops could be attacked in reverse as they advanced", suggesting Longstreet was ordered on a course intended to bypass Little Round Top—had the hill been a key objective of the assault, Lee would not have used the phrase "delayed by" in describing the effects of the engagement.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Garry Adelman has countered the argument that a Confederate capture of Little Round Top would have badly hurt the Union effort. Examining the number of troops available in the vicinity in the late afternoon, he determined that at most 2,650 Confederates could have been available to defend the hill after capturing it, and that these men would have been exhausted from combat and short on ammunition. In contrast, 11,600 fresh Union reinforcements were available within a mile, primarily from Maj. Gen. <a href="/wiki/John_Sedgwick" title="John Sedgwick">John Sedgwick</a>'s <a href="/wiki/VI_Corps_(Union_Army)" class="mw-redirect" title="VI Corps (Union Army)">VI Corps</a>. In addition, the value of Little Round Top as an artillery position has been overstated—the shape of the crest of the hill forces guns to be placed one behind the other, limiting their effectiveness when engaging targets directly to the north, such as the Union line on Cemetery Ridge.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>While Chamberlain and the 20th Maine have gained popularity in the American national consciousness, other historical figures such as Strong Vincent, <a href="/wiki/Patrick_O%27Rourke" class="mw-redirect" title="Patrick O'Rourke">Patrick O'Rourke</a>, and Charles Hazlett arguably played equal roles in the Union success at Little Round Top. Their deaths at the scene, however, did not allow their personal stories to be told.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Postbellum_history">Postbellum history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Little_Round_Top&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Postbellum history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During visits by 13 generals in 1865, points were identified on Little Round Top at which markers were subsequently erected,<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a 40 ft (12 m) observatory was built by 1886,<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> before a stone monument with observation deck was dedicated to the 44th New York in 1892. In the late 1880s,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/20th_Maine_Volunteer_Infantry_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment">20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment</a> monument on Little Round Top was dedicated with a speech by Joshua Chamberlain.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1935, two "hairpin curves" of the avenue on Little Round Top were removed by the Continental Contracting Company to create a "by-pass, a stretch of .399 mile," from the <a href="/wiki/Round_Top_Museum" title="Round Top Museum">Round Top Museum</a> southward to north of the guard station on the south slope at Sykes Avenue and Chamberlain Avenue was subsequently closed. The summit parking lot was also created at this time.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1248256098">@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery{width:100%!important}}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery{display:table}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-default{background:transparent;margin-top:4px}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-center{margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-left{float:left}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-right{float:right}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-none{float:none}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-collapsible{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .main,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer{display:table-row}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title>div{display:table-cell;padding:0 4px 4px;text-align:center;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .main>div{display:table-cell}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .gallery{line-height:1.35em}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer>div{display:table-cell;padding:4px;text-align:right;font-size:85%;line-height:1em}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title>div *,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer>div *{overflow:visible}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .gallerybox img{background:none!important}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .bordered-images .thumb img{border:solid var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0)1px}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .whitebg .thumb{background:var(--background-color-base,#fff)!important}</style><div class="mod-gallery mod-gallery-default mod-gallery-center"><div class="title"><div>Monuments at Little Round Top</div></div><div class="main"><div><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional nochecker bordered-images whitebg"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Signal_Corps_tablet_Little_Round_Top.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Memorial tablet to the Signal Corps embedded in the rock of Little Round Top"><img alt="Memorial tablet to the Signal Corps embedded in the rock of Little Round Top" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Signal_Corps_tablet_Little_Round_Top.JPG/180px-Signal_Corps_tablet_Little_Round_Top.JPG" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Signal_Corps_tablet_Little_Round_Top.JPG/270px-Signal_Corps_tablet_Little_Round_Top.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Signal_Corps_tablet_Little_Round_Top.JPG/360px-Signal_Corps_tablet_Little_Round_Top.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Memorial tablet to the <a href="/wiki/Signal_Corps_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Signal Corps in the American Civil War">Signal Corps</a> embedded in the rock of Little Round Top</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Company_K_Monument,_Devil%27s_Den,_Gettysburg_Battlefield.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Monument for the 30th Infantry, First Pennsylvania Reserves, at the base of Little Round Top. Inscribed in the monument are the words "Co. K recruited at Gettysburg." Dedicated September 1890."><img alt="Monument for the 30th Infantry, First Pennsylvania Reserves, at the base of Little Round Top. Inscribed in the monument are the words "Co. K recruited at Gettysburg." Dedicated September 1890." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Company_K_Monument%2C_Devil%27s_Den%2C_Gettysburg_Battlefield.jpg/180px-Company_K_Monument%2C_Devil%27s_Den%2C_Gettysburg_Battlefield.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Company_K_Monument%2C_Devil%27s_Den%2C_Gettysburg_Battlefield.jpg/270px-Company_K_Monument%2C_Devil%27s_Den%2C_Gettysburg_Battlefield.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Company_K_Monument%2C_Devil%27s_Den%2C_Gettysburg_Battlefield.jpg/360px-Company_K_Monument%2C_Devil%27s_Den%2C_Gettysburg_Battlefield.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2080" data-file-height="1544" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Monument for the 30th Infantry, First Pennsylvania Reserves, at the base of Little Round Top. Inscribed in the monument are the words "Co. K recruited at Gettysburg." Dedicated September 1890.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Company_K_Monument,_Town_Square,_Gettysburg.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Monument in town square: "Company K, in the center of the First [Pennsylvania] Reserves, helped to repulse the Confederate attempt to seize Little Round Top, possession of which was the key to victory in the battle."[38]"><img alt="Monument in town square: "Company K, in the center of the First [Pennsylvania] Reserves, helped to repulse the Confederate attempt to seize Little Round Top, possession of which was the key to victory in the battle."[38]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Company_K_Monument%2C_Town_Square%2C_Gettysburg.jpg/180px-Company_K_Monument%2C_Town_Square%2C_Gettysburg.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Company_K_Monument%2C_Town_Square%2C_Gettysburg.jpg/270px-Company_K_Monument%2C_Town_Square%2C_Gettysburg.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Company_K_Monument%2C_Town_Square%2C_Gettysburg.jpg/360px-Company_K_Monument%2C_Town_Square%2C_Gettysburg.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2080" data-file-height="1544" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Monument in town square: "Company K, in the center of the First [Pennsylvania] Reserves, helped to repulse the Confederate attempt to seize Little Round Top, possession of which was the key to victory in the battle."<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:20th_Maine_Monument,_Little_Round_Top,_Gettysburg_Battlefield,_Pennsylvania.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment monument on Little Round Top is the most popular Gettysburg National Military Park monument that visitors request to see.[39]"><img alt="The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment monument on Little Round Top is the most popular Gettysburg National Military Park monument that visitors request to see.[39]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/20th_Maine_Monument%2C_Little_Round_Top%2C_Gettysburg_Battlefield%2C_Pennsylvania.jpg/180px-20th_Maine_Monument%2C_Little_Round_Top%2C_Gettysburg_Battlefield%2C_Pennsylvania.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/20th_Maine_Monument%2C_Little_Round_Top%2C_Gettysburg_Battlefield%2C_Pennsylvania.jpg/270px-20th_Maine_Monument%2C_Little_Round_Top%2C_Gettysburg_Battlefield%2C_Pennsylvania.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/20th_Maine_Monument%2C_Little_Round_Top%2C_Gettysburg_Battlefield%2C_Pennsylvania.jpg/360px-20th_Maine_Monument%2C_Little_Round_Top%2C_Gettysburg_Battlefield%2C_Pennsylvania.jpg 2x" data-file-width="999" data-file-height="779" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The <a href="/wiki/20th_Maine_Volunteer_Infantry_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment">20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment</a> monument on Little Round Top is the most popular <a href="/wiki/Gettysburg_National_Military_Park" title="Gettysburg National Military Park">Gettysburg National Military Park</a> monument that visitors request to see.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Monument_to_140th_New_York_and_Patrick_O%27Rorke.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Monument to Col. Patrick O'Rorke and the 140th New York on Little Round Top"><img alt="Monument to Col. Patrick O'Rorke and the 140th New York on Little Round Top" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d5/Monument_to_140th_New_York_and_Patrick_O%27Rorke.jpg/179px-Monument_to_140th_New_York_and_Patrick_O%27Rorke.jpg" decoding="async" width="179" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d5/Monument_to_140th_New_York_and_Patrick_O%27Rorke.jpg/269px-Monument_to_140th_New_York_and_Patrick_O%27Rorke.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d5/Monument_to_140th_New_York_and_Patrick_O%27Rorke.jpg/359px-Monument_to_140th_New_York_and_Patrick_O%27Rorke.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1252" data-file-height="1256" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Monument to Col. Patrick O'Rorke and the 140th New York on Little Round Top</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:12th_and_44th_N.Y._Vol._Inf._Monument.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Monument to the 12th and 44th New York Infantry on Little Round Top"><img alt="Monument to the 12th and 44th New York Infantry on Little Round Top" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/12th_and_44th_N.Y._Vol._Inf._Monument.JPG/138px-12th_and_44th_N.Y._Vol._Inf._Monument.JPG" decoding="async" width="138" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/12th_and_44th_N.Y._Vol._Inf._Monument.JPG/207px-12th_and_44th_N.Y._Vol._Inf._Monument.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/12th_and_44th_N.Y._Vol._Inf._Monument.JPG/276px-12th_and_44th_N.Y._Vol._Inf._Monument.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1320" data-file-height="1720" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Monument to the 12th and 44th New York Infantry on Little Round Top</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Monument_to_the_155th_Pennsylvania_Volunteers_at_Little_Round_Top,_Gettysburg_National_Military_Park,_Gettysburg,_Pennsylvania_LCCN2011630822.tif" class="mw-file-description" title="Monument to the 155th Pennsylvania Volunteers at Little Round Top"><img alt="Monument to the 155th Pennsylvania Volunteers at Little Round Top" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Monument_to_the_155th_Pennsylvania_Volunteers_at_Little_Round_Top%2C_Gettysburg_National_Military_Park%2C_Gettysburg%2C_Pennsylvania_LCCN2011630822.tif/lossy-page1-143px-Monument_to_the_155th_Pennsylvania_Volunteers_at_Little_Round_Top%2C_Gettysburg_National_Military_Park%2C_Gettysburg%2C_Pennsylvania_LCCN2011630822.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="143" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Monument_to_the_155th_Pennsylvania_Volunteers_at_Little_Round_Top%2C_Gettysburg_National_Military_Park%2C_Gettysburg%2C_Pennsylvania_LCCN2011630822.tif/lossy-page1-214px-Monument_to_the_155th_Pennsylvania_Volunteers_at_Little_Round_Top%2C_Gettysburg_National_Military_Park%2C_Gettysburg%2C_Pennsylvania_LCCN2011630822.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Monument_to_the_155th_Pennsylvania_Volunteers_at_Little_Round_Top%2C_Gettysburg_National_Military_Park%2C_Gettysburg%2C_Pennsylvania_LCCN2011630822.tif/lossy-page1-286px-Monument_to_the_155th_Pennsylvania_Volunteers_at_Little_Round_Top%2C_Gettysburg_National_Military_Park%2C_Gettysburg%2C_Pennsylvania_LCCN2011630822.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3301" data-file-height="4154" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Monument to the 155th Pennsylvania Volunteers at Little Round Top</div> </li> </ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Little_Round_Top&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The battle for Little Round Top is a key plot point of <a href="/wiki/Ward_Moore" title="Ward Moore">Ward Moore</a>'s 1953 <a href="/wiki/Alternate_history" title="Alternate history">alternate history</a> novel <i><a href="/wiki/Bring_the_Jubilee" title="Bring the Jubilee">Bring the Jubilee</a></i>. The 1974 novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Killer_Angels" title="The Killer Angels">The Killer Angels</a></i>, and its 1993 film adaptation, <i><a href="/wiki/Gettysburg_(1993_film)" title="Gettysburg (1993 film)">Gettysburg</a></i>, depicted a portion of this battle. Filmmaker <a href="/wiki/Ken_Burns" title="Ken Burns">Ken Burns</a> praised Chamberlain in his PBS documentary <i><a href="/wiki/The_Civil_War_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Civil War (TV series)">The Civil War</a></i> and in subsequent interviews for possibly saving the Union with his actions during the engagement. </p><p>In the 2016 song "Ballad of the 20th of Maine" by Maine folk group The Ghost of Paul Revere, the famous bayonet charge and <a href="/wiki/Andrew_J._Tozier" title="Andrew J. Tozier">Andrew Tozier</a>'s defiant stand is chronicled: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Well, our western flank was missing /<br /> As the confederates, they pushed on /<br /> And I fought them tooth and nail /<br /> Our ammunition all but gone ...<br /> And then appeared our Lion, he was roaring bayonets /<br /> And we charged on down the mountain with what forces we had left /<br /> We're as steadfast as <a href="/wiki/Katahdin" class="mw-redirect" title="Katahdin">Katahdin</a>, we're as hard as winter's rain /<br /> Go straight to hell with your <a href="/wiki/Rebel_yell" title="Rebel yell">Rebel yell</a>, we are the boys of Maine. </p> </div></blockquote><p><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Little_Round_Top&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Big_Round_Top" title="Big Round Top">Big Round Top</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gettysburg_Battlefield_Historic_District" title="Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District">Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gettysburg_National_Military_Park" title="Gettysburg National Military Park">Gettysburg National Military Park</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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September 16, 1863<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2011-01-23</span></span>. <q><i>among them the heights of Cemetery Hill and the granite spur of Round Top ... have been purchased by Mr. D. McConaughy</i></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Baltimore+Sun&rft.atitle=More+Exempts+from+the+Draft&rft.date=1863-09-16&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3D%2522granite%2Bspur%2Bof%2BRound%2BTop%2522&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALittle+Round+Top" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Elevation_Query-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Elevation_Query_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gisdata.usgs.gov/xmlwebservices2/elevation_service.asmx?op=getElevation">"USGS Elevation Web Service Query"</a>. <a href="/wiki/United_States_Geological_Survey" title="United States Geological Survey">United States Geological Survey</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2010-02-19</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=USGS+Elevation+Web+Service+Query&rft.pub=United+States+Geological+Survey&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fgisdata.usgs.gov%2Fxmlwebservices2%2Felevation_service.asmx%3Fop%3DgetElevation&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALittle+Round+Top" class="Z3988"></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gisdata.usgs.gov/xmlwebservices2/elevation_service.asmx/getElevation?X_Value=-77.23921&Y_Value=39.78634&Elevation_Units=FEET&Source_Layer=-1&Elevation_Only=FALSE">582.655 (saddle point)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110722062632/http://gisdata.usgs.gov/xmlwebservices2/elevation_service.asmx/getElevation?X_Value=-77.23921&Y_Value=39.78634&Elevation_Units=FEET&Source_Layer=-1&Elevation_Only=FALSE">Archived</a> 2011-07-22 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gisdata.usgs.gov/xmlwebservices2/elevation_service.asmx/getElevation?X_Value=-77.240839&Y_Value=39.792116&Elevation_Units=FEET&Source_Layer=-1&Elevation_Only=FALSE">501.2 (Plum Run @ Crawford Rd</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110722062828/http://gisdata.usgs.gov/xmlwebservices2/elevation_service.asmx/getElevation?X_Value=-77.240839&Y_Value=39.792116&Elevation_Units=FEET&Source_Layer=-1&Elevation_Only=FALSE">Archived</a> 2011-07-22 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-auto-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-auto_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Adelman, <i>Little Round Top</i>, p. 7; <a href="/wiki/USGS" class="mw-redirect" title="USGS">USGS</a> map.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Brown-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Brown_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrown2006" class="citation web cs1">Brown, Andrew (June 2006) [1962]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090320064714/http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/education/es5/es5.pdf">"GEOLOGY and the Gettysburg Campaign"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Pennsylvania: Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/education/es5/es5.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 2009-03-20<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2010-02-19</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=GEOLOGY+and+the+Gettysburg+Campaign&rft.place=Pennsylvania&rft.pub=Bureau+of+Topographic+and+Geologic+Survey&rft.date=2006-06&rft.aulast=Brown&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dcnr.state.pa.us%2Ftopogeo%2Feducation%2Fes5%2Fes5.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALittle+Round+Top" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nature-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-nature_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nature.nps.gov/Geology/inventory/publications/reports/gett-eise_gri_rpt_body_print.pdf">"Geologic Resources Inventory Report"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Denver, Colorado: Natural Resource Program Center (NPS). 2009. pp. 12, 16, 24<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2010-02-19</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Geologic+Resources+Inventory+Report&rft.place=Denver%2C+Colorado&rft.pages=12%2C+16%2C+24&rft.pub=Natural+Resource+Program+Center+%28NPS%29&rft.date=2009&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.nps.gov%2FGeology%2Finventory%2Fpublications%2Freports%2Fgett-eise_gri_rpt_body_print.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALittle+Round+Top" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See, e.g., paragraph beginning, “Without a topological map,” about 15% into his letter, first reprinted in “A History of the Class of 1854 in Dartmouth College” (Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1898).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Frassanito, pp. 243–45. Thus, a famous exchange in the novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Killer_Angels" title="The Killer Angels">The Killer Angels</a></i> is an anachronism: "Chamberlain said. 'One thing. What's the name of this place? This hill, Has it got a name?' 'Little Round Top,' Rice said. 'Name of the hill you defended. The one you're going to is Big Round Top.'"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pfanz, p. 153.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-auto1-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-auto1_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto1_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Harman, pp. 55–56; Eicher, p. 526.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-auto2-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-auto2_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto2_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Desjardin, p. 36; Pfanz, p. 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Norton, p. 167. Norton was a member of the 83rd Pennsylvania, which Vincent commanded before becoming its brigade commander.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pfanz, p. 232. The 20th Maine had 28 officers and 358 enlisted men.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Desjardin, p. 36; Pfanz, pp. 208, 216.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pfanz, p. 162.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Desjardin, pp. 51–55; Pfanz, p. 216.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pfanz, p. 232; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCross2006" class="citation web cs1">Cross, David F. (June 12, 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-gettysburg-fighting-at-little-round-top.htm">"Battle of Gettysburg: Fighting at Little Round Top"</a>. HistoryNet.com<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2012-01-02</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Battle+of+Gettysburg%3A+Fighting+at+Little+Round+Top&rft.pub=HistoryNet.com&rft.date=2006-06-12&rft.aulast=Cross&rft.aufirst=David+F.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.historynet.com%2Fbattle-of-gettysburg-fighting-at-little-round-top.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALittle+Round+Top" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-D6971-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-D6971_17-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-D6971_17-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Desjardin, pp. 69–71.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Desjardin, p. 69.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Melcher, p. 61.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Desjardin, p. 148. During the Civil War, only enlisted men were eligible to receive the Medal of Honor. In 1893, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">Congress</a> authorized awards to officers, and numerous medals were granted long after the feats of heroism.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pfanz, pp. 227–28.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pfanz, pp. 223–24.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pfanz, pp. 225–28, 239–40.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-A15-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-A15_24-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-A15_24-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Adelman, <i>Little Round Top</i>, p. 15.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pfanz, pp. 391–92.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hall, p. 314.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Adelman, <i>Little Round Top</i>, pp. 61–62.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Compare, for instance, Pfanz, p. 205, Sears, p. 269, and Coddington, p. 388 with Harman, pp. 7–8, 35–47.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Adelman, <i>Myth of Little Round Top</i>, p. 37.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=J6ET57FVMTI5NTg5MTA0Ny45MzQzMTA6MToxNToxMzguMjM0LjIyMC4xMzU&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=11&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=11&p_docnum=13&p_docref=v2:0F99DDB671832188@EANX-1070B6E914F5C4B8@2415076-1070B6EA2F3D75C8@14-1070B6ED9240B6D8@The+Battle+of+Gettysburg">"The Battle of Gettysburg: Extracts of the minutes of the meeting of Sterling Price Camp)"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(America's Historical Newspaper image)</span>. Dallas Morning News (February 25). January 20, 1900. p. 15<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2011-01-24</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The+Battle+of+Gettysburg%3A+Extracts+of+the+minutes+of+the+meeting+of+Sterling+Price+Camp%29&rft.pages=15&rft.date=1900-01-20&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Finfoweb.newsbank.com%2Fiw-search%2Fwe%2FHistArchive%2F%3Fp_product%3DEANX%26p_theme%3Dahnp%26p_nbid%3DJ6ET57FVMTI5NTg5MTA0Ny45MzQzMTA6MToxNToxMzguMjM0LjIyMC4xMzU%26p_action%3Ddoc%26s_lastnonissuequeryname%3D11%26d_viewref%3Dsearch%26p_queryname%3D11%26p_docnum%3D13%26p_docref%3Dv2%3A0F99DDB671832188%40EANX-1070B6E914F5C4B8%402415076-1070B6EA2F3D75C8%4014-1070B6ED9240B6D8%40The%2BBattle%2Bof%2BGettysburg&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALittle+Round+Top" class="Z3988"></span> (Major Robbins' letter)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harman, p. 36: "How could this Union force, located on the 'high, rocky hills' (a clear reference to the Round Tops), have attacked Longstreet's troops 'in reverse' (from behind) unless the Confederate plans were to march north, staying just west of and passing by these 'rocky hills'?"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Adelman, <i>Myth of Little Round Top</i>, pp. 61–64, 69-73.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nytimes-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-nytimes_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0C13F93C58137A93C1A9178AD95F418684F9">"The Field of Gettysburgh: Interest Concerning the Great Battle Ground -- Thirteen Generals Revisit the Scene of their Struggle …"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(Google News Archive)</span>. <i>New York Times</i>. Oct 31, 1865<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2011-01-08</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Times&rft.atitle=The+Field+of+Gettysburgh%3A+Interest+Concerning+the+Great+Battle+Ground+--+Thirteen+Generals+Revisit+the+Scene+of+their+Struggle+%E2%80%A6&rft.date=1865-10-31&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fselect.nytimes.com%2Fgst%2Fabstract.html%3Fres%3DFA0C13F93C58137A93C1A9178AD95F418684F9&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALittle+Round+Top" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWert1886" class="citation book cs1">Wert, J. Howard (1886). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=N8QPaIbCCM0C&q=observatory&pg=PA92"><i>A Complete Handbook of the Monuments and Indications and Guide to the Positions on the Gettysburg Battlefield</i></a>. p. 92<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2011-10-20</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Complete+Handbook+of+the+Monuments+and+Indications+and+Guide+to+the+Positions+on+the+Gettysburg+Battlefield&rft.pages=92&rft.date=1886&rft.aulast=Wert&rft.aufirst=J.+Howard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DN8QPaIbCCM0C%26q%3Dobservatory%26pg%3DPA92&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALittle+Round+Top" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pullen, pp. 140–41, cites October 1889. Desjardin, p. 153, cites 1889. Hawthorne, p. 52, cites October 3, 1886. Adelman, <i>Little Round Top</i>, p. 24, states that the monument was placed in June 1886.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">James Morgan, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gdg.org/Research/People/Chamberlain/flash.html">"Who Saved Little Round Top: A Response to the Melcher Challenge,"</a> Camp Chase Gazette, July 1996.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8SczAAAAIBAJ&pg=4975,296994&dq=sykes-avenue&hl=en">"Gettysburg Compiler - Google News Archive Search"</a>. <i>news.google.com</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=news.google.com&rft.atitle=Gettysburg+Compiler+-+Google+News+Archive+Search&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2Fnewspapers%3Fid%3D8SczAAAAIBAJ%26pg%3D4975%2C296994%26dq%3Dsykes-avenue%26hl%3Den&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALittle+Round+Top" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Minnigh, p. 55. Company K consisted of seasoned veterans of many significant battles, having been recruited in Adams County on May 15, 1861. Company K's engagements, including detailed accounts of eyewitnesses, were recorded by their captain, Henry N. Minnigh, in his book, "A History of Company K."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Desjardin, pp. 159–63.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://20thmainevolunteers.com/ballad20thmaine.html">"Ballad of the 20th Maine"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Ballad+of+the+20th+Maine&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2F20thmainevolunteers.com%2Fballad20thmaine.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALittle+Round+Top" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Little_Round_Top&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Adelman, Garry E. <i>Little Round Top: A Detailed Tour Guide</i>. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 2000. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57747-062-1" title="Special:BookSources/1-57747-062-1">1-57747-062-1</a>.</li> <li>Adelman, Garry E. <i>The Myth of Little Round Top</i>. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 2003. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57747-097-4" title="Special:BookSources/1-57747-097-4">1-57747-097-4</a>.</li> <li>Clark, Champ, and the Editors of Time-Life Books. <i>Gettysburg: The Confederate High Tide</i>. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1985. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8094-4758-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-8094-4758-4">0-8094-4758-4</a>.</li> <li>Coddington, Edwin B. <i>The Gettysburg Campaign; a study in command</i>. New York: Scribner's, 1968. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-84569-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-84569-5">0-684-84569-5</a>.</li> <li>Desjardin, Thomas A. <i>Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign</i>. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1995. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57747-034-6" title="Special:BookSources/1-57747-034-6">1-57747-034-6</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_J._Eicher" title="David J. Eicher">Eicher, David J.</a> <i>The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War</i>. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-84944-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-84944-5">0-684-84944-5</a>.</li> <li>Frassanito, William A. <i>Early Photography at Gettysburg</i>. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1995. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57747-032-X" title="Special:BookSources/1-57747-032-X">1-57747-032-X</a>.</li> <li>Hall, Jeffrey C. <i>The Stand of the U.S. Army at Gettysburg</i>. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-253-34258-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-253-34258-9">0-253-34258-9</a>.</li> <li>Harman, Troy D. <i>Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg</i>. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8117-0054-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-8117-0054-2">0-8117-0054-2</a>.</li> <li>Hawthorne, Frederick W. <i>Gettysburg: Stories of Men and Monuments</i>. Gettysburg, PA: Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides, 1988. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9657444-0-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-9657444-0-X">0-9657444-0-X</a>.</li> <li>LaFantasie, Glenn W. <i>Twilight at Little Round Top</i>. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2005. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-307-38663-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-307-38663-2">978-0-307-38663-2</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holman_S._Melcher" class="mw-redirect" title="Holman S. Melcher">Melcher, Holman S.</a> <i>With a Flash of his Sword: The Writings of. Maj. Holman S. Melcher, 20th Maine Infantry</i>. Edited by William B. Styple. Kearny, NJ: Belle Grove Publishing, 1994. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-883926-00-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-883926-00-9">1-883926-00-9</a>.</li> <li>Minnigh, Henry N. <i>A History of Company K, 1st (Inft,) Penn'a Reserves</i>. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1998. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57747-040-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-57747-040-0">1-57747-040-0</a>. First published 1891 in Duncansville, PA.</li> <li>Norton, Oliver W. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=sK0SAAAAYAAJ"><i>Army Letters 1861-1865</i></a>. Chicago: O.L. Deming, 1903. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/518033">518033</a>.</li> <li>Pfanz, Harry W. <i>Gettysburg – The Second Day</i>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8078-1749-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-8078-1749-X">0-8078-1749-X</a>.</li> <li>Pullen, John J. <i>Joshua Chamberlain: A Hero's Life and Legacy</i>. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1999. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8117-0886-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8117-0886-9">978-0-8117-0886-9</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_W._Sears" title="Stephen W. Sears">Sears, Stephen W.</a> <i>Gettysburg</i>. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-395-86761-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-395-86761-4">0-395-86761-4</a>.</li> <li>U.S. War Department, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/records/list.cfm"><i>The War of the Rebellion</i></a>: <i>a Compilation of the <a href="/wiki/Official_Records_of_the_American_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Official Records of the American Civil War">Official Records</a> of the Union and Confederate Armies</i>. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Little_Round_Top&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Gottfried, Bradley M. <i>Brigades of Gettysburg</i>. New York: Da Capo Press, 2002. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-306-81175-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-306-81175-8">0-306-81175-8</a>.</li> <li>Gottfried, Bradley M. <i>The Maps of Gettysburg: An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 – June 13, 1863</i>. New York: Savas Beatie, 2007. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-932714-30-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-932714-30-2">978-1-932714-30-2</a>.</li> <li>Grimsley, Mark, and Brooks D. Simpson. <i>Gettysburg: A Battlefield Guide</i>. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8032-7077-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-8032-7077-1">0-8032-7077-1</a>.</li> <li>Laino, Philip, <i>Gettysburg Campaign Atlas</i>. 2nd ed. Dayton, OH: Gatehouse Press 2009. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-934900-45-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-934900-45-1">978-1-934900-45-1</a>.</li> <li>Norton, Oliver W. <i>The Attack and Defense of Little Round Top: Gettysburg, July 2, 1863</i>. Gettysburg, PA: Stan Clark Military Books, 1992. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-879664-08-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-879664-08-9">1-879664-08-9</a>. First published 1913 by Neale Publishing Co.</li> <li>Petruzzi, J. David, and Steven Stanley. <i>The Complete Gettysburg Guide</i>. New York: Savas Beatie, 2009. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-932714-63-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-932714-63-0">978-1-932714-63-0</a>.</li> <li>Pullen, John J. 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