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The dramatic story of Gettysburg's most crucial engagement the struggle for Little Round Top Little Round Top was a strategically placed hill on the Union line at Gettysburg a hill that saw some of the fiercest fighting of the war on July 2, 1863. Now, in this masterly account, one of the country's preeminent experts on Gettysburg brings the struggle for Little Round Top to life. Drawing on newly discovered documents, Glenn LaFantasie reconstructs the engagement from the perspective of ordinary soldiers, capturing in vivid detail the bloody assaults by Alabama and Texas troops, the celebrated counterattack by Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain's 20th Maine Infantry, and the New York infantry charge that ultimately won the day. Glenn W. LaFantasie (Rhode Island) has written for several magazines and newspapers, including MHQ, North & South, the New York Times Book Review, and American History. He is working on a biography of William C. Oates.