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0:00 Credits  
4:00 Prologue  
5:00

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Tuesday, June 30th - South Mountain
  • Scout on Reconnaissance
  • Spots Federal cavalry and infantry
  • Reports to Longstreet
Harrison
8:00 Longstreet HQ
  • Harrison reports Federal position - 2 Cavalry Brigades in Gettysburg, 7 Corps in all
  • J.E.B. Stuart has not reported
Harrison

Longstreet

11:20 Lee HQ
  • Report on Federals - Meade now CG
  • Lee orders ANV to converge
Longstreet

Lee

13:30 Union Mills, MD -- 20th Maine encampment
  • 120 mutineers from 2nd Maine arriving
  • Authorized to 'shoot them'
Chamberlain

Sgt. Major Kilrain

16:00 Lee HQ
  • Army to move at sunrise
Longstreet

Lee

17:00 20th Maine encampment
  • 250 men on hand (of original 1,000)
  • Mutineers turned over
  • Appeal to duty, patriotism
  • Move out toward Gettysburg
Chamberlain

Sgt. Major

Tom Chamberlain

31:45 Outside Gettysburg
  • Buford spots Confederate infantry
Buford
34:00 20th Maine enrouteTaneytown, MD
  • 20th Maine enroute
  • 114 2nd Maine have joined
Chamberlain

Sgt. Major

Tom

35:20 Gettysburg - Lutheran Theological Seminary
  • Confederate infantry approaching
  • Buford foresees disaster - deploys to delay, deny Rebels the best ground
Buford

staff

41:15 Night of June 30th -- Gettysburg, on the eve of battle
  • Buford reports to Reynolds
Buford

Reynolds

42:00

Timeline

Wednesday, July 1 - Lee HQ
  • Federals are concentrating - cavalry in Gettysburg
  • Avoid battle until the entire army is up
Lee

Longstreet

45:50 Buford, observing from Lutheran SeminaryTheological Seminary
  • Confederates attacking, temporarily repulsed
Buford
50:00 Cashtown
  • ANV on the march
Lee
51:00 Dismounted cavalry, July 1Theological Seminary
  • Cavalry defending, Buford orders 'all reserves forward'
  • I Corps arriving
Buford

Reynolds

55:15 Lee enroute
  • Hot fight -- report of Federal infantry
Lee

Heth

57:00 Gettysburg
  • More Confederates arriving (Ewell)
  • Federals defend
Buford
58:00 Lee enroute
  • Lee orders general attack
Lee

Heth

Aide

59:00 Gettysburg
  • I Corps deploys - hot fight
  • Reynolds is killed by Confederate marksman
Reynolds
1:02:00 Lee and LongstreetGettysburg
  • Federals pushed back
  • Lee orders Ewell to attack Culp's Hill
  • Longstreet recommends maneuver
  • Lee disagrees - "The enemy is here - the fight is here."
Lee

Longstreet

8:30 Federal encampment
  • Tom talks to POW
  • Chamberlain, Sgt Major reflect
Tom

Chamberlain

Sgt Major

16:00 Longstreet HQ (night)
  • Joke about Pickett at West Point
  • Armistead asks about Hancock
  • Talk of the war
  • Kemper defends Confederate cause
Pickett

Longstreet

Armistead

Kemper

British Colonel

24:30 Cemetery Ridge - Federal HQ
  • Hancock wonders about Armistead
Buford

Hancock

28:20 Seminary Ridge - Confederate HQ
  • Trimble upset with Ewell
  • Federals are entrenching
Lee

Trimble

32:20 Federal HQ
  • Meade arrives
  • 'Very good ground'
Meade

Hancock

staff

33:30 Confederate HQ
  • Lee reflects
Lee
35:20

Timeline

Thursday, July 2 - Lee HQ
  • Federal position is like a fish hook
  • Lee lays out attack - Longstreet on right, Ewell to demonstrate on left
Lee

staff

43:00 Federal Lines
  • Religious service
Hancock
44:00 Confederate Lines
  • Reflection on Duty
Lee

Longstreet

46:20 Federal Lines
  • 20th Maine to Little Round Top
Chamberlain

Colonel Vincent

47:30 HoodConfederate Lines
  • Hood argues for move to right
Hood

Longstreet

49:20 Little Round Top
  • 20th Maine moving uphill
Chamberlain

Tom

50:00 Little Round Top
  • Chamberlain gets orders
  • 20th is the end of the entire line
  • Must 'hold to the last'
Chamberlain

Vincent

52:20 The Peach Orchard
  • Rebels advance, take Federal artillery
troops
53:10 Chamberlain defending Little Round TopLittle Round Top
  • 20th Maine deploys
Chamberlain

Officers

1:54:50 to 2:21:40 The fight for Little Round Top
  • Last mutineers volunteer
  • Rebels attack - 'the whole damn Reb army'
  • Repeated assaults
  • Line extended to left
  • Sgt Major wounded - everyone low on ammo
  • Hand-to-hand fighting
  • Chamberlain leads bayonet counterattack - Rebels finally break
Chamberlain

Sgt Major

20th Maine

 

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