...the height was "the key of the whole position" ... It might have been used to advantage by .... Regimental monument on Little Round Top for the 20th Maine. 'Name of the hill you defended. The one you're going to is Big Round Top.
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20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Tozier, Andrew J., Sergeant, Company I' Gettysburg, July 2: "...at the crisis of the engagement, this soldier, a color bearer, stood alone in the advance position, the regiment having been borne back, and defended his colors with musket and ammunition picked up at his feet..."
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return to 20th Maine Homepage Citation: At Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863, at the crisis of the engagement this soldier, a color bearer, stood alone in an advanced position, the regiment having been borne back, and defended his colors with musket and ammunition picked up at his feet.
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Chamberlain had just enough time to place his men into position along a ledge .... It continues to silently honor the men of the 20th Maine, who defended so...
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First are the markers for the position of the 20th Maine at the Vincent Spur- .... Which was actually quite a bit higher and more easily defended (due to...
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That does not diminish the key role he played in real life in braving the intense gunfire to anchor the position of the 20th Maine as they stood their...
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Brief biography of General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Col. Chamberlain & the 20th Maine Infantry In 1900, he was appointed Surveyor of the Port of Maine, a position which he held until his death on February 14, 1914. General Chamberlain is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in Brunswick, Maine.
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As the 20th Maine's more rarely seen monument on Big Round Top proudly states, "The 20th Maine Reg't, Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain, captured and held this position on the evening of July 2D, 1863, pursuing the enemy from its front on the line marked by its monument below.
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