Little Round Top

Battle of Little Round Top
	Part of the Gettysburg campaign
	; "The Famous Charge of the Twentieth Maine on 2 July 1863" by H. Charles McBarron
Date	July 2, 1863
Location	Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Result	Union victory
Belligerents
United States of America	Confederate States of America
Commanders and leaders
Joshua Chamberlain G. K. Warren; Strong Vincent †;	John Bell Hood Evander M. Law; James L. Sheffield;
Strength
2,996 troops	4,864 troops
Casualties and losses
134 killed; 402 wounded; 29 missing;	279 killed; 868 wounded; 219 missing;

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.

Little Round Top was successfully defended by a brigade under Colonel Strong Vincent, who was mortally wounded during the fighting and died five days later. The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, fought its most famous engagement there, culminating in a dramatic downhill bayonet charge. The battle at Little Round Top subsequently became one of the most well-known actions at Gettysburg, and of the entire war.