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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.
The castellated building is the largest monument to a regiment on the battlefield, is the 1st of only 2 Battle of Gettysburg memorials with observation decks (cf. 1910 The Pennsylvania State Memorial), and supplemented the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association wooden towers on Big Round Top and East Cemetery Hill (replaced in 1895 with 2 ...
Little Round Top 39°47′22″N 77°14′10″W / 39.789476°N 77.236146°W / 39.789476; -77.236146 ( 20th Maine Infantry Monument (Little Round Unknown maker
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From stolen cannons to spray-painted monuments, there's a long history of theft and vandalism at the park. ... when the nine-foot General Warren statue atop Little Round Top was toppled in 1963 ...
He is memorialized by a statue on the 83rd Pennsylvania monument on Little Round Top; by a statue erected in 1997 at Blasco Memorial Library, Erie; and by Strong Vincent Middle School in Erie. The portion of Little Round Top to the southeast of Sykes Avenue on the Gettysburg Battlefield is known as "Vincent's Spur". The 1-112 Infantry of the ...
The grave became a place of veneration, then a site of controversy in the early 2000s when Little Round Top's owner began to shoo away the curious. Lawsuits were filed to push for public access.
The Eternal Light Peace Memorial is a 1938 Gettysburg Battlefield monument dedicated on July 3, 1938, ... [and] Little Round Top". [9] ...