I have been an American Battlefield Trust donor since they were the Civil War Preservation Trust.
Chamberlain was one of the Civil War best generals.
I will never be able to think of Little Round Top again without seeing the Union bayonet charge scene from the movie “Gettysburg”. That said, there is nothing like visiting. My only thought was, what idiot would try to attack something that steep? Having never experienced military combat, I have no clue how it compares to other hills. I doubt it is big considering all the hills in the Pacific islands or Korea, but I sure would not want to charge up that hill with a small arms and cannon fire raining down on me.
If the Confederates secured Little Round Top first, the annuls of History might look much different.
Other than that, war sucks.
Other, other than that, it would have been interesting today if the Confederacy had won, sued for peace, and established its own nation and flourished. With a separate Confederate States of America today, it would give us at least an optional nation to immigrate to as the USA continues to decline and collapse into totalitarian Socialism.
It’s amazing how the actions of a select few affected the battle so dramatically:
Chamberlin: see above.
John Buford’s retreat to the high ground west of Gettysburg, thus securing the tactical advantage for the Union.
Richard Ewell’s reluctance to continue the battle on the evening of July 1st, possibly costing the Confederates a chance to route the Union on day 1.
Dan “dumbass” Sickles’ moving his corps ahead of Union lines, creating a salient and almost causing disaster for the Union on day 2.
James Longstreet telling Lee not to perform Pickett’s charge, Lee going ahead anyway.
and hence my freeper name
i read about Chamberlain in Shelby Foote’s trilogy
When the order is “hold at all hazards” and you are holding the extreme flank with only a cartridge or 2 in each soldiers ammunition pouch, you choice basically is how do you want to die? Chamberlain performed magnificently.
.......my Great, or GREAT, GREAT...........grandfather was a member of the 5th Texas Regiment under General Hood. This article places the 4th and 5th Texas at Little Round Top. If my grandpa was there, thank God the Yankees were lousy shots or about 20 of us alive today wouldn’t be.
A few years ago I visited Gettysburg and stood on Little Round Top in the early evening. There is a definite vibe to that place and you dense the great struggle that went on where I stood.
Getting tired of reading about Bolsheviks.