. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . icn General Warren discovered the defenseless condition ofLittle Round Top. he spied the division of JamesBarnes marching to the relief of their comrades fighting along theEmmitsburg road. Warren, on his own responsibility, rode overto General Barnes and detached \incents brigade. Iiiirrying itback to guard Little RoundTop. It was not long beforethe men of the Forty-fourthNew York were engaged in afierce hand-to-hand combatwith the determined Confed
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . icn General Warren discovered the defenseless condition ofLittle Round Top. he spied the division of JamesBarnes marching to the relief of their comrades fighting along theEmmitsburg road. Warren, on his own responsibility, rode overto General Barnes and detached \incents brigade. Iiiirrying itback to guard Little RoundTop. It was not long beforethe men of the Forty-fourthNew York were engaged in afierce hand-to-hand combatwith the determined Confed-erates of Hood, wormingtheir way from tree to treeand boulder to boulder, in arunning fight up the men of the Forty-fourthNew York were among thefinest in the service; theywere enlisted from everycounty in their native State,and were selected in ac-cordance with strict require-ments as to fitness. The. average age of the regiment was twenty-two; its heaviest battleloss (one Iiun<irefl and eleven), occurnil in the def(*nse of LittleRound Top at Gettysburg. The groun<l seemed impregnable,but the Southerners, rushing on from their victory at the blo<xlyangle, climbeil the slopes in such a desperate onslaught that the Federals, not having limeto load, ailvanced to repel theattack with the hillside after the battlewas literally strewn with thedead and wounded. To theprompt and brave work ofXineenls brigade, in whichfought the Forty-fourth New^ ork, was due, in part, thefact that Little Round Topwas not taken in that firstassault. Till repulse of theConfederates gave the Fed-erals time to bring up abatterj and strengthen theposition against the repeatedcharges of the afterniKin. WHERE THE SECOND D.\YS ENDED
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