The Battle of Gettysburg continues: At the skirmish of Little Round Top, Lieutenant Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, commanding the 20th/ Volunteer Regiment, defeats the Alabama Brigade, commanded by Brigadier General Evander Law. Chamberlain successfully defends the extreme southern end of the compulsory Union line, thus preventing a flanking maneuver that would have given the Confederacy (a voluntary union) its first victory on Union soil.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 177.
Little Round Top – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Round_Top
American Civil War, 1863
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilwar4.htm
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