🔴Ask a Gettysburg Guide #136 - Little Round Top Beyond the 20th Maine with Charlie Fennell

Topics Discussed:
- The regiments on Little Round Top from  left to right
- The importance of Little Round Top and the modern interpretation as the key to victory for the battle 
- The true key to victory of the battle of Gettysburg…. The Baltimore Pike? 
- Getting around the right of Little Round Top and what Confederate General Hood would have found if he had been a loud to go take his troops that way
- Discussion on who was on Little Round Top the morning of July 2nd  and who was suppose to be there.
- Did the Union Signal Corp witness Confederate General Hood's mens movement before the attack?
- Union General Warren sends word for help to cover Little Round Top and who answered the call for help
- Little Round Top before the battle and what the hill was used for by the townspeople 
- What Union General Vincent saw when he got on Little Round Top and the decision he made based on his observations 
- The evolution of who saved the Little Round Top over time 
- The alignment of the Union regiments and why certain regiments are next to each other 
- The Confederate regiments attacking the hil and there alignment 
- The stonewall on the hill and when it was built
- Discussion on the terrain of Little Round Top in 1863 and now 
- Discussion on where the fighting on Little Round Top started and the repeated attacks to take the hill  
- Where the ammunition came from to reinforce the soliders fighting on Little Round Top 
- Story of Union Colonel Patty O'Rorke encountering General Warren and how the 140th NY got on Little Round Top
- Patty O'Rorke's  death and who claimed he was the savior of Little Round Top 
- The problem with Little Round Top  as an artillery platform 
- Where did Union 1st Lieutenant Hazlett deploy his batteries guns and is the location of them today accurate 
- Story of Brigadier General Stephen Weed and 1st Lieutenant Hazlett's wounding 
- Discussion on the threat to the northern part of the Little Round Top 
- Union Troops that in place that if the Union had not held the hill that would have kept the Confederates from holding it 
- The July 3 actions that took place on Little Round Top and during Pickett's Charge 
- Were there Confederate sharpshooters in Devils Den ? 
- The role of Union Sharpshooetrs around Little Round Top
- Would the Confederate attack been different if General Hood had not been wounded
- Discussion on O'Rorke's actions and if it was ever written about back in Rochester or by other soldiers 
- Discussion on the challenges a guide has today when taking a tour to Little Round Top 
- Story behind rubbing the O'Rorke 140th NY monument nose for luck 
- The impact of Union General Sickles's advance to the Peach Orchard had on Confederate General Longstreet's attack 
- Where General Longstreet viewed the attack on Little Round Top
- What happened to the Signal Corp when the the attack started and where did did they go. 
- Discussion on the shots that killed Hazlett and Weed
- The consequences of not taking Little around Top for the Confederates 
- Accounts of the fighting by the 83rd PA and the 44th NY
- The impact roads had on monument placement 
- Casualties of the Union regiments on Little Round Top
- Other officers and soldiers that should  to be talked about and noted that fought on Little Round Top but are overlooked  

Show References:
Gettysburg - 1993 Movie 
Battle Tested!: Gettysburg Leadership Lessons for 21st Century Leaders - Jeffrey D. McCausland and Tom Vossler
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara 
Edmund Forbes sketches of Little Round Top https://www.loc.gov/pictures/
Sons of Monroe: A Regimental History of Patrick O'Rorke's 140th New York Volunteer Infantry - Brian Bennet 
Gettysburg Campaign Altas -  Philip Laino 
The Attack and Defense of Little Round Top - Oliver Wilcox Norton 

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