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CWRT HearstffeitiMed From Page 1) fund drive to raise approximately $5000 to replace the broken marker. She reported Thursday that because of other needs for funds at the school such a campaign couki not be carried out. CWRT Vice President Robert Mullen agreed to bead a committee to seek ways to raise the funds and sought volunteers to help with the campaign.Charles Appier, chairman of the Civil War Building plaque committee reported 148 Civil War Budding plaques have been placed in Gettysburg so far and 204 in the county. He said he and his committee have sixmore of the markers to place next week.Longanecker noted that 50,-000 bullets were expended by the Union and Confederate forces in the 20th Maine area. Of that number 20,000 were fired by the 20th Maine, which ultimately ran entirely out of ammunition.Longanecker outlined how the commander of the 20th Maine, Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a Bowdoin college professor, who later was to be president of that college and also governor of Maine, spaced his troops along the southeast slope of Little Round Top. The right portion of his troops were attacked by the 4th Alabama regiment.15TH ALABAMAWhile that fighting was goingon Chamberlain saw the 15th Alabama regiment, commanded by Col. William C. Oates approaching on the left flank. Toprevent being flanked by the Confederates, Chamberlain bad the left half of his regiment drop back until it formed a right angle to the remainder of die regiment. Then began a bat* tie in which the Confederates time after time, charged and almost broke through, but never quite made it. Often the Maine soldiers had to fight the Confederates off by hitting them with rifle butts. The final mo*, ment came when Chamberlain, his troops finally out of ammunition, ordered by bayonet charge and the half of his troopsrefused along the side of the hill “swung like a gate” to come into line with the remainder of the entire regiment charged downhill at the Confederates. ■Before the Alabamians could discover the Maine regiment had no ammunition, Co. B came on the Confederate flank and the Confederates thought they were surrounded and fled.Chamberlain’s troops then received orders to go onto Big Round Top and did so, even1 though they had still not received any ammunition. The bullets finally arrived late that night.Chamberlain’s unit went into battle with 386 men — it lost 130. The 15th Alabama lost 150 mem.Col. Skeads said both Col. Chamberlain and the regiment color sergeant, Andrew J. Tosi-er, received the congressional medal of honor as a result ofthe fighting. Chamberlain’s citation stated he received the medal for “daring heroism and great tenacity in holding his position on Little Round Top carrying the advance position on the Big Round Top.”Sheads noted that the 20th Maine was but one of a number of Maine regiments which fought bravely at Gettysburg. Of the 4,059 soldiers here, 1,021 were easualites.THOUSAND ISLAND PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Ten vacuum barges were prepared for cleanup work today on 308,000 gallons of heavy oil spread along more than 40 miles of the St. Law-irence River.
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Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Jun 25, 1976
Page 12
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