The Battle of Little Round Top

The 140th New York Regiment led the charge that saved Little Round Top. Colonel Joshua Chamberlain was a 34-year-old language professor who left Bowdoin College to volunteer for the Union Army. He cried out bayonets and his men fixed blades to their empty rifles and boldly charged down the hill. The rebels were stunned by the audacity of Chamberlain's bayonet charge 400 men surrendered and Little Round Top was saved But as the battle raged on Little Round Top some of the war's bloodiest fighting erupted nearby. Thousands of blue and gray clad men exchanged deadly blows in a wheat field, peach orchard and boulder covered hill called Devil's Den.