Battle of Gettysburg

The view from Little Round Top across the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania, photographed in 2025, with the rocks and open fields where the second day's fighting raged below. On July 2, 1863, the 20th Maine was ordered to the extreme left of the Union line on this hill, and when its ammunition ran low its men fixed bayonets and charged downhill. Look out from the summit and you see why it mattered: whoever held this rocky height could see, and fire on, the ground below. The hill reopened to visitors in June 2024 after rehabilitation work.