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According to the National Park Service Gettysburg website, it was JoshuaL. Chamberlain. Chamberlain was aColonel with the20th Maine Infantry. During the battle, Colonel Chamberlain lead his men to hold the high ground at Little Round Top, and then charging to capture and hold Great Round Top. This happened on July 2, 1863. Chamberlain was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor thirty years later on August 11, 1893.

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Colonel (later Major General) Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of Brewer, Maine. Formerly a professor of Bowdoin College and would someday become Maine's governor.

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Union Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine Regiment defended Little round top on July 2nd, 1863.

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