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One of the most visited monuments on the Battlefield the monument to Joshua Chamberlain's 20th Maine. |
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Just 60 paces to the left of the 20th Maine monument is this monument marking the end of the line of the Union Army's defense on Little Round top. |
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The steep and rocky face of Little
Round Top as seen from the Park road through the Valley of Death.
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The cannon belongs to the Army of Northern Virginia and it's pointed at the Valley of Death. Big Round Top is in the distance with the bare face of Little Round Top to its left. This is one of the first cannons you'll spot as you turn off Emmitsburg Road and head toward Big Round Top. |
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Monument of The Rev. William Corby,
chaplain of the famed Irish Brigade, who was nominated for the Medal of
Honor, wrote a moving and yet humorous book, and distributed the Word of
God to soldiers going into battle. After the war he became a two-time
university president and a leader of his religious community.
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One of Corby’s most memorable acts was on the second day at Gettysburg, which he modestly did not describe but for which he set the scene in his book: “And now, the two great armies are confronting each other…. At about four o’clock the Confederates commenced firing, and one hundred and twenty cannon from their side belched forth from their fiery throats missiles of death into our lines…The proportions of the pending crash seemed so great, as the armies eye each other, that even veterans who had often ’smelled powder’ quailed at the thought of the final conflict. The Third Corps were pressed back, and at this critical moment I proposed to give a general absolution.” |