The 20th Maine Charges to Glory

A daring bayonet charge saves the Union army at Gettysburg

Little Round Top, Gettysburg National Military Park, photo by Ken Lund (Flickr)

One hundred and fifty-eight years ago yesterday (July 2), a professor on leave from Maine’s Bowdoin College courageously led his outnumbered and battered volunteer regiment on a desperate bayonet charge down the slope of Little Round Top in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.