A long time ago... required reading in a College history course I think.
An excellent historical novel.
The Mass Union leader, can’t remember his name, ordered the fixing of bayonets and a counter charge after they had run out of bullets. Think that
Was in the little round too.
He saved the day.
So they moved them to the center of the line for a ‘rest’. Only to end up in Pickett’s charge.
“The Mass Union leader, can’t remember his name, ordered the fixing of bayonets and a counter charge after they had run out of bullets. Think that was in the little round too.”
That was Colonel (later General) Joshua Chamberlain. He was from Maine not Massachusetts. His troops occupied the extreme western edge of Little Round Top.
He led a bayonet charge that prevented the Confederates from capturing the important high ground which would have allowed them to bring up cannon and shell the union lines.