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The battle for Little Round Top is a key plot point of Ward Moore's 1953 alternate history novel Bring the Jubilee. The 1974 novel The Killer Angels, and its 1993 film adaptation, Gettysburg, depicted a portion of this battle.
Bring the Jubilee is a 1953 alternate history novel by American writer Ward Moore. [2] [3]The point of divergence occurs in July 1863 when the Confederate States of America wins the Battle of Gettysburg and subsequently declares victory in a conflict referred to within the book as the "War of Southern Independence" on July 4, 1864, after the surrender of the United States of America.
Moore was born in Madison, New Jersey, a western suburb of New York City.His parents were Jewish and had married in 1902, the previous year. His grandfather Joseph Solomon Moore (1821–1892) had been a successful German-born commission merchant and the statistician of the New York custom house, the author of several books on the tariff question and a friend of Carl Schurz.
The jonbar hinge in Bring the Jubilee, Ward Moore's 1953 novel of American Civil War alternate history, is the Confederate occupation of Little Round Top minutes before the Union's attempt, which leads to Lee's victory at the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. [7]
In the mid 20th century, Dwight D. Eisenhower dreams (maybe) that he time travels to the Battle of Gettysburg. "A Hard Day for Mother" by William R. Forstchen. A look at what might have happened at Little Round Top had Joshua Chamberlain fought for the Confederacy rather than the Union. "East of Appomattox" (in Alternate Generals III) by Lee ...
Tom Eishen's historical novel Courage on Little Round Top is a detailed look at Chamberlain as well as Robert Wicker, the young Confederate officer who fired his pistol at Chamberlain's head during the 20th Maine's historic charge down Little Round Top. Ken Burns's 1990 nine-part PBS film The Civil War featured Chamberlain prominently.
Captain Charles D. Grannis of Co. A, B, and H, 44th New York Infantry Regiment. The 44th and 12th New York Infantry Monument [1 is a Gettysburg Battlefield memorial erected near the summit of Little Round Top to commemorate combat in the Battle of Little Round
Strong Vincent (June 17, 1837 – July 7, 1863) was a lawyer who became famous as a U.S. Army officer during the American Civil War.He was mortally wounded while leading his brigade during the fighting at Little Round Top on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, and died five days later.