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Attack and Defense of Little Round Top, The

By: Norton Library, The

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (The Norton Library)


Product Info

Title
Attack and Defense of Little Round Top, The
Category
Author
Oliver Willcox Norton
Publish Year
1992
Pages
350
Dimensions
5.5x8.5x1"
NKG Part #
2148163169
Type
Softcover

Description

Late in the afternoon of July 2, 1863, on a boulder-strewn hillside in southern Pennsylvania, Union Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain dashed headlong into history, leading his 20th Maine Regiment in perhaps the most famous counterattack of the Civil War. The regiment’s sudden, desperate bayonet charge blunted the Confederate assault on Little Round Top and has been credited with saving Major General George Gordon Meade’s Army of the Potomac, winning the Battle of Gettysburg and setting the South on a long, irreversible path to defeat.