Little Round Top

Little Round Top
Part of the Gettysburg Campaign
"View from the summit of Little Round Top at 7:30 P.M. July 3rd, 1863", painting by Edwin Forbes
Date July 2, 1863 Location Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Result Union victory
Belligerents
United States of America	Confederate States of America
Commanders and leaders
G. K. Warren Strong Vincent †	Evander Law James L. Sheffield
Strength
2,996 troops	4,864 troops
Casualties and losses
134 killed 402 wounded 29 missing	279 killed 868 wounded 219 missing

Little Round Top is the smaller of two rocky hills south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—the companion to the adjacent, taller hill named Big Round Top. It was the site of an unsuccessful assault by Confederate troops against the Union left flank on July 2, 1863, the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, during the American Civil War.

Little Round Top was successfully defended by a brigade under Colonel Strong Vincent, who was mortally wounded during the fighting and died five days later. The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, fought its most famous engagement there, culminating in a dramatic downhill bayonet charge. The battle at Little Round Top subsequently became one of the most well-known actions at Gettysburg, and of the entire war.