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Subject:
Gettysburg Question
BasinBictory
4/29/2006 5:38:35 AM
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| Hello all,
Just recently visited the Gettysburg National Park, and did the self-guided tour (minus the benefit of audio cassette) and had a question about the defense of Little Round Top.
Now, I'm certainly not as well read as some of you on the Civil War, the majority of my knowledge of the battle comes from "The Killer Angels" and the movie it was based on, "Gettysburg" (the one with Martin Sheen as RE Lee and Jeff Daniels as Col. Chamberlain.
Anyway, at the actual battle site, one of the storyboards (or kiosks, or whatever you call those informational boards set up at historical sites) says that the left flank of the Union Army was severely threatened on the second day of battle, as Hood's division tried to break the Union left flank. As I read from "The Killer Angels," I thought it was the 20th Maine, led by Colonel Chamberlain, who led a heroic bayonet charge (because they were out of ammo) that routed the Confederates and saved the day. The storyboard at the park states it was the 140th New York! Is this mistaken? Or did the 140th also participate in a similar action? |
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