“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.
That’s right Chamberlain.
Custer’s cavalry cut Lee off at Appomattox.
And
“On the morning of April 9, 1865, Chamberlain learned of the desire by General Robert E. Lee to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia when a Confederate staff officer approached him under a flag of truce. “Sir,” he reported to Chamberlain, “I am from General Gordon. General Lee desires a cessation of hostilities until he can hear from General Grant as to the proposed surrender.”[11] The next day, Chamberlain was summoned to Union headquarters where Maj. Gen. Charles Griffin informed him that he had been selected to preside over the parade of the Confederate infantry as part of their formal surrender at Appomattox Court House on April 12.[12]”