20th Maine, Little Round Top Gettysburg

Footage recorded at the site of the famous attack by Chamberlain's 20th Maine on Little Round Top, Gettysburg on 2nd July 1863.

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• Gettysburg
• 20th
• Maine
• Chamberlain
• Little
• Round
• Top
• 1863

[Baskerville22]

Chamberlain's "swinging door" manoeuvre was his invention after the war. Please don't report Hollywood scripts as history

[VideoHistoryToday]

@Baskerville22 Not sure what you mean. Did this 'swinging door' action not happen? 

[VideoHistoryToday]

I think the NPS are removing trees in certain places to return the location to their Civil War era appearance.

[VideoHistoryToday]

I wouldn't call you a freak. I had no interest in history when I was at school. Dropped it completely at 14.  Bad move. If you enjoy it, stick to it. No idea how old you are but if you have a better understanding of history, you have a better understanding of people and that helps in any career you go into. Don't worry what your friends think.

[tophrules0978]

I visited here before when i was at least 6th months old and when i was 10. I lost a hat on Little Round Top when i was 6th months old and my dad said "Maybe we can find it" if i heard him right but i love visiting historic sites like this. My schoolmates call me crazy for visiting these great places. I'm in 8th Grade by the way.I'm the only history freak in my class

[kidkong584]

i live in gettysburg its fun

[Olddog231]

I visited here 8 times in past 10 years and learn something different every time. What irks me is the fact most of the visitors dont really understand what happened here beside what they were taught in school. The battlefield today nowhere resembles what it was in 1863. It has too much commercialism around it. Take Shilo battlefield--government down there does not allow commercialism around battlefield and when walking the field you get a raw sense of what the battle was like

[mrfester42]

@tophrules0978 Then you're no freak. You're an intelligent kid.

[rudy43norvelle]

Nice video. I was there this past October. Visited nine battlefields in six days, but spent two whole days at Gettysburg.

[atrahan100]

Thanks for the video, I have been to Gettysburg twice, last in 2008. Very interested in the Little round top battle.

[kidkong584]

@Baskerville22 Actually, Chamberlain learned the swinging door from history books. It was a Native American fighting manoeuvre.

[sleestackgod]

I think they should pave over the park and put a walmart on top of little round top. They should put up a three hundred foot statue of Ronald Reagan somewhere too.

[KayBeeEee1983]

@Astronaut542 WW2 did change us. Before the war we had been isolationists, like George Washington had recommended at the end of the Revolutionary war. After the war, we believed that it was our responsibility to defend democracy around the world.

[RickChalek]

@Astronaut542 The world war DID absolutely change us, and especially changed the world at large. You're correct that WWI did not, but don't confuse the 2 wars. They're really not related. WWII was about fighting fascism, and it was hugely important. If either Japan or Germany had won, you would never say the war did not change us. What you mean to say is that the Civil War defined us as a nation, and that is absolutely true. But don't minimize one to exalt the other. They're both important

[Astronaut542]

@tophrules0978 You can be my long lost brother. The Civil War fascinates me more than some kind of other crap like World War (I or II). Did the World War change us? No, but the Civil War did. As a struggle against all odds, with the men at Gettysburg, such as Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine, our nation is now a 'Union"/"United" States of America. I've been visiting battlefields ever since I was I was 6 years old, and they still fascinate me today.