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28            A little Round-top  Getysburg
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28            A little Round-top  Getysburg [Gettysburg]
     On the right by file into line rang out from Colonel Chamberlin, and the line officers and swang into line faceing to the front and over little round top.
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     On the right by file into line rang out from Colonel Chamberlin [Joshua L Chamberlain], and the line officers and swang into line faceing to the front and over little round top.
Orders wer given to Lieut Merrell comanding Co. B. to advance and deploy as skirmishers. No sooner said than
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Orders wer given to Lieut Morrell comanding Co. B. to advance and deploy as skirmishers. No sooner said than
 
done and out went Co. B to the front and left to protect our flank and was soon out of sight in the woods.
 
done and out went Co. B to the front and left to protect our flank and was soon out of sight in the woods.
 
We had not been in posision more than fifteen minutes when the skirm-ishers on our right front was forced
 
We had not been in posision more than fifteen minutes when the skirm-ishers on our right front was forced

Revision as of 19:23, 1 April 2017

28 A little Round-top Getysburg [Gettysburg]

    On the right by file into line rang out from Colonel Chamberlin [Joshua L Chamberlain], and the line officers and swang into line faceing to the front and over little round top.

Orders wer given to Lieut Morrell comanding Co. B. to advance and deploy as skirmishers. No sooner said than done and out went Co. B to the front and left to protect our flank and was soon out of sight in the woods. We had not been in posision more than fifteen minutes when the skirm-ishers on our right front was forced back into the ranks and the enemy advanced close after them. When the enemy's line hove in sight they wer at short rang and we opened fire on them and they replied with grate fury; There was a dreadfull roar for a time when the rebs came round on our left so that the left of our regt had to form a few rods to the rear to prevent a cross fire from the enemy. There we held them with heavy loss and such odds against us that we see it would not do to try to hold them much longer.