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The 20th Maine Infantry Regiment was a volunteer regiment of the United States Army (Union Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), most famous for its defense of Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1–3, 1863. The 133rd Engineer Battalion of the Maine Army National Guard and the United ...
Little Round Top is the smaller of two rocky hills south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania —the companion to the adjacent, taller hill named Big Round Top. It was the site of an unsuccessful assault by Confederate troops against the Union left flank on July 2, 1863, the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, during the American Civil War.
The defense of Little Round Top with a bayonet charge by the 20th Maine, ... On November 19, 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, ...
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (born Lawrence Joshua Chamberlain, September 8, 1828 – February 24, 1914) [1][2] was an American college professor from Maine who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army. He became a highly respected and decorated Union officer, reaching the rank of brigadier general (and brevet major general).
Updated February 13, 2017 at 1:09 PM. On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Pennsylvania ...
A replica of the Gettysburg 20th Maine Infantry Monument is at Chamberlain Freedom Park in Brewer, Maine. 20th Maine Infantry Monument Big Round Top: Unknown sculptor 1889 MN 372-B Marks regiment's position on the night of July 2, 1863. Maine Sharpshooters Monument (Company D, 2nd United States Sharpshooters)
The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, now known as Gettysburg National Cemetery, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War's ...
Holman Melcher. Holman Staples Melcher (/ ˈmɛltʃər /; June 30, 1841 – June 25, 1905) was an American military officer, businessman, and politician active during the Reconstruction Era. A faction of historians and soldiers controversially contend that he led the downhill bayonet charge of Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg.