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October 2025

A statue of Gen. G.K. Warren, chief engineer of the Union Army who ordered troops to defend the decisive position, now looks over an improved view.
A statue of Gen. G.K. Warren, who ordered troops to defend the decisive position on Little Round Top, now looks over an improved view of the battlefield, with the Peach Orchard and Devil's Den in the near distance below the heights. Edwin S. Grosvenor

In one of the most dramatic moments of the Civil War, Union soldiers at the battle of Gettysburg rushed up Little Round Top just ahead of Confederate troops who had the same idea: capture the position that commanded a view of nearly the entire battlefield where 165,000 men were struggling to kill each other.

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