Battle Little Round Top

The patriotic background of his upbringing made Chamberlain feel obligated to devote his efforts to saving the Union when tensions between North and South erupted into Civil War in 1861. Officials at Bowdoin tried to deter Chamberlain from engaging in military pursuits by offering him a year’s travel with pay In Europe in 1862 to study languages, an offer Chamberlain rejected in favor of volunteering his military services to the governor of Maine (Calhoun, 2). Within a short time, Chamberlain was made Lieutenant Colonel of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

From 1862 until 1865, Chamberlain would see a great deal of militar

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6, 1863. In this account of the battle of Little Round Top, Chamberlain provides a detailed description of the events that unfolded there from 7 a.m., July 2, 1863 through July 5th when the 20th Maine left the area. The description of the battle at Little Round Top reveals enormous insight into the horrors and desperation of man-to-man combat. With his background on languages and rhetoric, Chamberlain’s account of the battle not only demonstrates his own anxiety and fear but also takes on a poetic quality. This is illustrated throughout the account, but most demonstrated by Chamberlain’s account of the panic and fear incited by enemy artillery and gunfire and his knowledge that Union troops were down to the last of their precious supply of ammunition: It did not seem possible to withstand another shock like this now coming on. Our loss had been severe. One-half of my left wing had fallen, and a third of my regiment lay just behind us, dead or badly wounded. At this moment my anxiety was increased by a great roar of musketry in my rear, on the farther or northerly slope of Little Round Top...The bullets from this attack stuck into my left rear, and I feared that the enemy might have nearly surrounded the Little Round Top, a
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)

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