The Heroes of Little Round Top (Gettysburg) History Traveler Episode 133

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I love your videos. This one especially hit home as 6 members of my mothers family served with the 20th Maine. All of them were members of Co B. Two of those ancestors gave their lives on 2 July 1863 and one of the survivors was my 2x great grandfather. Two years ago I was privileged to take my oldest grandson on a trip to Gettysburg. We stood at the monument you highlighted in this video and I told him the story of the 20th Maine. To see the look of pride on that young man's face was priceless. Thank you for all of your efforts your hard work is greatly appreciated.

OUTstanding! Taking the walk to Co. B's stone wall was the master stroke to this story.

As a man from Maine, I am very familiar with the 20th and the 27th. Both very interesting stories. I am so proud to know of the gallantry that they displayed.

Thank you for going out to Company B's marker and filming the area. I've never walked out there myself (because I'm usually visiting in the summer/early fall). I was on a ranger walk on Little Round Top one summer and a gentleman in the crowd asked the ranger if people could go out to the site where Company B had fought. I'll never forget the ranger's reply: "Oh yeah, you can go out there. There's poison ivy and ticks and snakes and chiggers, but you can go out there." The whole crowd had a good laugh!

I visited Gettysburg and Little Roundtop. Something spiritual still remains there. Saddness is the emotion that hit me.

Actually seeing the landscape definitely puts a different perspective on the battle

I live 15 minutes away, and love to just take a sporadic trip to the fields every once in awhile. It truly is something remarkable when you visit the area. Knowing that men, some no older than 17, stood and fought where you are standing now, it’s just a really surreal feeling. If you have never made the trip out to Gettysburg, you should, at least once! The town itself is trapped with the battlefield, it’s still a very much civil war era town with the shops etc etc.

General Strong Vincent is buried in my hometown of Erie, PA. He practiced law in Erie before the war. Great video!!!!

That fog just makes ur view that more eerie. As I watch this, my mind actually sees how the men advance. Being an empath, I hear the guns, the movement of the men, and their screams. This week being Memorial Week really sets why we honor those of our Armed Forces.

I walked that ground, and never knew about Company B. Wow. So Col. Chamberlain didn't just form an angle to extend his flank, he also protected it with enfilade fire, so anyone hitting it would come under fire from two directions. Brilliant. Thank you for bringing this to light!

Love how you give both perspectives of the battlefield. With the heat and terrain it must have been hell for men on both sides.

I live 30 minutes from Gettysburg and travel there quite often, and I thought I knew everything there was to know about the place until watching your videos. Thank you for an amazing series on Gettysburg!

After his actions at Gettysburg its amazing the lengths Warren had to go to clear his name after the war. There must have been a personality clash between him and Sheridan.

Now I realised what I missed when I visited Gettysburg almost 15 years ago. And now that I watched that movie again, I get a better connection with the places you visited (and are going to visit). In the military park museum I saw posters in German language, not knowing that about 100.000 Germans where fighting on that batllefield. History is fascinating, especially with guys like you, who bring history to the people.

Always impressed with your production quality. As someone whose worked in advertising for over 30 years, Im must say the work is outstanding.

Love this series! Need to mention Patrick O’Rorke and the 140th NY infantry as well when talking heroes of Little Round Top. But for their arrival straight into the battle as the 16th MI was collapsing the result could have been different. Another “in the nick of time” moment at Gettysburg. Keep up the awesome work!

I can never get enough of the Battle of Gettysburg or great videos on the Civil War made by History Traveler. Thank you.

Love your description of Brigadier General would evacuate his bowels. Love this series. I can't wait to get back to Gettysburg.

I love how he shows you the exact spots and explains it, I never knew about company B. much better then the tour guides standing in one spot reading from cue cards