The 20th Maine regiment was tasked with holding the far end of the Union line at the summit of Little Round Top {seen pictured at top looking up from the bloody 'Devil's Den'} during the Gettysburg campaign. Because Confederates could not conquer the other flank at Culp's Hill in the initial stages {see previous set of our photos}, they shifted force to test the Union left flank by attacking with hard-fighting men from Alabama and Texas on the second day of the battle. The 20th Maine repelled multiple assaults until troops and ammunition became exhausted. Sensing the need to protect the vital strategic high point at any cost, Chamberlain ordered a bayonet charge to push the Confederate troops off the slope. "At that crisis, I ordered the bayonet. The word was enough." Chamberlain's men would hold, some taking stunned, exhausted Confederates prisoner with dry rifles, saving the day, and ultimately forcing General Lee to determine that if the flanks are so well protected that the Union CENTER, where Chamberlain's surviving men would be sent for respite the next day, must be vulnerable { ummmm, not!}. BTW-as a side note there is a ghost living in our hotel room who occasionally turns our tv off...We shit you not.