Little Round Top Fact and Fiction with Jeff Shaara: Gettysburg 158 Live!

welcome back everybody thanks so much for joining us make sure you share this with your friends right at the outset you're with the american battlefield trust we're on little round top this is part two of our gettysburg 158 little round top coverage you sort of saw we went over the hill already and covered some of the main fighting but not the most famous fighting by any means and we're going to be covering some of that and more with some cool surprises um before we're even done that's chris white behind the camera and this is our like i said gettysburg 158 coverage now we're trying to focus on people and units during this particular uh you know live set you know and if you want more of the military stuff go to gettysburg 154 55 56 and 57 to see in fact last year we had some extensive coverage right here on vincent spur which is where we stand but just in a nutshell i think you know what happens this is the end of the union line for a while uh the flank had been in about eight other places already but for about an hour the 20th maine under colonel joshua lawrence chamberlain is going to hold this spur in fact that left flank didn't hold and will eventually move to this left flank of the union army and then it'll be on big round top and elsewhere but of course there's a very famous fight that's going to take place here in which alabamians mostly generally the 15th alabama will attack the 20th main several times eventually the 20th main running out of all steam will eventually charge into the exhausted alabamians who run like a herd of wild cattle back up big round top and then the battle continues on and the war continues on from there one of the reasons of course you could point to john j pullen's 20th main and you could point to the ken burns series but i think that even influencing ken burns and the main reason the 20th maine is you know probably famous is because of michael shara and we're really happy um to have as a guest you know him already jeff shara of course michael's son so first of all new york times bestselling author many times over and of course author of the prequel and the sequel to the killer angels so tell us a little bit about yourself first uh well i write books um which is something i didn't i never set out to do my father passed away in 1988 and never saw the success the killer angels has had since then uh which is how i became a writer uh because uh ted turner who made the movie gettysburg based on the killer angels a lot of and probably more people have seen the movie than have read the book uh but realize that you know that's a the book is the movie it's it's so close people wanted more of that and ted turner said what if we took the killer angels going both directions before and after i had never written anything before but i thought it's something i'd like to try and gods and generals was the before the prequel and i that book was successful to my great surprise and made me a writer and now 18 books later um here i am so i i don't take that for granted and clearly my father passed a torch um that he didn't live to see and you know and so to say the least you know joshua chamberlain and the other five or so main characters in the killer angels changed your life so you know it must have been a good story i mean that's what you do that's what your dad did so why chamberlain let's get into that a little bit well you said it exactly gary it's about a story i'm not a historian i'm not an academic my father certainly was not what he was is the ultimate and what i've tried to be the storyteller the guy who you know puts the characters in place puts dialogue in their mouths you know it tells the honest tells the truth but it has to be called fiction because of the dialogue i mean nobody will ever know exactly what strong vincent said to joshua chamberlain you know up here uh but we know approximately what happened and that's my job is to fill in the blanks well for a storyteller little round top this is this is gold i mean this is a treasure up here because the story of joshua chamberlain and the 20th maine and you know colonel oates in the 15th alabama um i mean this is what stories are made of you have well drama is putting it mildly uh the entire success for a while the entire success of the union line down on this end depends on what joshua chamberlain did and you know and that's something a lot of people don't realize it's not just about the charge you know it's not just about bayonets and down the hill we go it's about the meaning of that and one thing you notice where i'm standing right here if you look behind me back here there's nothing there i mean you go right off the mountain here so this is where this was chamberlain's last stand right here and if he's pushed away if he's driven back they're going to fall off the mountain i mean there's no place else left to go however if the alabamans take over they're going to go that way right down the union line right where you know behind little round top where the 144th new york is where the other regiments they're holding that line all of a sudden a bunch of alabama's are going to come in from behind them and that's a disaster so that's you know the sort of history lesson combined with the drama that makes it such a good story and what chamberlain does here you know and i'll say one thing else over the years i mean killer angels has been around almost 50 years it was published in 1974. um over the years there's been a few people who've you know said well you know there were other heroes on little round top too of course there were loads of them um there were you know chamberlain was awarded the medal of honor for what he did here by definition that makes him a hero but certainly there were 63 medals of honor given for you know people at gettysburg for union soldiers at gettysburg so clearly you know there were a lot of heroes here all my father did my father never says and i've had people argue this with me he never says in the killer angels well you know joshua chamberlain saved the day that if it wasn't for joshua chamberlain the union would have lost the battle that's not true and he knew it wasn't true and it doesn't say that anywhere in the killer angels all it says is this particular piece of ground right here this was where chamberlain fought and chamberlain did the decisive thing made the right decision to save this piece of ground and what might have happened had he failed well it's anybody's guess but it's a good story and that's what i want people to get you know that that's the take i want people to get from this and i think one of the things that makes it a good story too and your your father no doubt and sees no doubt seized upon this is chamberlain's not a professional soldier i mean he's a professor of all things i mean there's a lot of things that could put you far from a soldier i'm sure there's things some things could put you farther from a soldier than a professor but there's not too many of them did that play a big part well i think it played a huge part for my father my father was a professor that's what he did he taught creative writing and literature at florida state and uh he i think when he saw when he read about chamberlain began to research the character he saw himself this is this is a great character this is the academic historian or the academic not historian the academic who wants to be a soldier who wants to get out there and that's exactly what chamberlain does and i think my father had a certain fantasy about that for himself until clearly the words that go into chamberlain's mouth and the killer angels to some extent that's my father talking and i mean i get a big kick out of that that's really cool you're with the american battlefield trust we're with new york times best-selling author jeff shara that's chris white behind the camera this is our gettysburg 158 coverage we're on vincent spur on little round top at gettysburg and we're talking about joshua chamberlain sort of the person and the story and maybe we'll walk and talk a little bit because it looks like nobody's over at the 20th main which is pretty incredible for an anniversary time while we have this moment so maybe if you're if you're willing jeff you know so joshua chamberlain you know becomes sort of famous especially after the book after ken burns after the gettysburg movie you know how did that affect you you already said a few people like to argue with you about what your father did what about after the gettysburg movie and you became a more public figure with your books well ken burns took his version of chamberlain from the killer angels uh i mean he definitely was influenced by my father's book he says that he said it many times and i think that so that just sort of takes the killer angels version of chamberlain and expands it quite a bit the same version not that ken got it wrong by any means but he expands sort of the i hate to say myth but in a way it's the sort of mythological stature of joshua chamberlain but at the end of the day i mean what he did was extraordinary and and deserves praise and deserves to be talked about and deserves to be remembered and and also you know at the end of the day too the killer angels is a good book i mean regardless i mean i i hope someone will say that about my stuff you know i mean that's the goal the goal is not to lionize some particular historical figure is to tell a good story my father succeeded beyond his possible imagination he had no idea what would happen he died in 1988 the film gettysburg came out in 1993 five years later made a book a number one bestseller now an author who doesn't see his greatest success well that's a shame i mean that's that's really a bittersweet thing in my family but what he left behind is probably the greatest story ever told about the battle of gettysburg very interesting let's walk a little bit further here because i've got more for jeff on this but it is interesting ken burns you know heavily influenced by the killer angels spent more time on the 20th main than he did on all of the first day and all the rest of the second day combined so i mean that there is a real influence there but you know he wanted to tell a good story too he's a documentary filmmaker and you can't focus on everybody and that's what he chose to do now we can't resist jeff we're going down to the 20th maine's monument he already knows where i'm headed and that monument was placed by the veterans and supposedly on the spot where the colors stood during the battle okay and specifically that's where they're going to stand when they're in the middle of the regiment after it bent back and extended the line so jeff whose name will we not see on the monument and how do you like that guy okay i'll i'll give you a little introduction to this a number of battlefield guides have come up to me and said will you please tell people this that the character in the killer angels the character of buster kill rain is not real he's a fictitious character i can't and it's happened to me i can't tell you how many people have come up they look at the monument right here they look at all the names of the dead from the 20th maine and it's a pretty intense monument and nowhere on that is buster kill rain and i can't tell you how many people have come up and asked me why you know why isn't he there well if they saw the movie or read the book they know what happens to buster so it's a logical question to ask he's a fictitious character it was my father's way of putting himself into the story killrain's personality this sort of cynical guy to counter chamberlain's idealism that was my father my father thought you needed that remember the killer angels was written in the 1960s a very cynical time and my father felt that chamberlain's idealism believing in the piece of peace of the angel and all men that very shakespearean notion that you needed something to counter that you needed something on the other side and that was buster kill rain so my father put him in as that character but uh kilrain is he's not real and he's not on statue so just to make sure kilrain is not real is that correct correct okay how do you how do you like correct colerain you know battlefield guides have issues with it but people like this guy the way that conway played him the nice thing about you in the movie kevin conway the late kevin conway the actor uh did a magnificent job and he was funny because he said i'm the only character with a good speaking role in this movie who's not an officer he's the only enlisted man who has a good role but beyond that because of copyright law in this country the only other person who can write that story or write a similar story and use the character of buster kill rain is me i'm the son of the father and so you meet kilrain as chamberlain meets kill rain in gods and generals you meet him for the first time and again he you know he's carrying a cup of coffee up to chamberlain that's how chamberlain meets him the first time i had fun with that i had so much fun with the character knowing that the sort of blueprint my father had laid out for for buster then i could just take it and run with it and he even comes back in last full measure the third of the story but of course he's already gone so he comes back in sort of a figurative sense again i had a lot of fun with that i'm not going to give it all away but it was a great deal of fun good so you heard it here jeff shara literally owns buster kill rain that's pretty cool there uh i like that jeff sher of course i i just got to say it i mean he's written all these books and about the mexican war about the uh american revolution about world war ii and the civil war not only in the east by the way um you know and we'll look forward to seeing what he has next but his recent book is the eagles claw and it is about uh um the battle of midway and i read the whole thing i couldn't in fact if i'm unprepared for gettysburg 158 because i had to finish that book before i started i i couldn't put it down so check out the eagles claw really good uh really good story even if you're not a world war ii fan you can just jump right into it and then see what else is going on so jeff you know here we are we're at vincent spur one of the main places if not the main place in your in your father's book you know anything else to add here while we stand here while you're talking to the members and supporters of the trust well i think and i don't know if the camera can do this justice maybe but standing in this place you can hear cars in the background there's roads there's paved roads right out here in front of me um none of that of course none of that was here here comes a bus and of course yeah it's a bus right now but and the rocks that the rock wall that's very close to us right here was actually about 20 or 30 feet down the hill uh a little bit farther down and of course out you know where we're looking out here that was all just it was sort of ragged woods where the alabamas came up well i it's so obvious to see what happens here when you realize that you know if you're so imagine you're four o'clock in the afternoon it's probably like it is today 90 degrees you're running out of water and you have to go up a hill and then you have to go up a hill again well what are you going to do you're going to go to the least hill you can find and that's right over here you've got flat ground that goes right around little round top right it's it's the end of little round top the boundary line and of course this is where the confederates are going to tend to want to funnel through and of course what that does to chamberlain's man they've got to keep spreading out and spreading out and as the alabamans come up they begin to come up back here because they're coming all the way around this nice flat ground and that's why chamberlain's men you know as gary said the monument sits where the flag bearer i have some doubts about that but it could be um but then the line goes that way so the two halves of chamberlain's line unlike in the movie where it shows a gate like so it's actually like this where the two halves of his line virtually these men are back to back and what that's like i can't imagine what that's like because if either side gives it's all over and and actually it's it's uh colonel oates who talks about where he was on the last charge and he talks about being back here with his flag bearer and i don't know the exact spot but he talks about a certain rock and people have located that that's incredible i mean you know so the confederates made it you know they're fighting over there they're fighting here they're fighting back here and again not to make it a history lesson but that's just what makes it a story and that's what gets me uh you probably tell it was what gets me excited talking about it and jeff says he's not a historian but he knows his stuff you'll find this out if you read any of his books about any historical periods he writes about now this is a little bit odd here because we're rolling and we're going to continue role we're just going to say goodbye to jeff so thanks so much for joining us jeff you're a great friend of preservation thank you uh not to mention a great dad husband and a whole and all other things you're a great guy i'm just gonna go sit down on my rock over here until the next camera comes by and then i'll be able to be ready i think someone might be lined up here unless they're waiting for chris white so thanks so much appreciate it all right so we still have chris white behind the camera we're going down vincent spur over here and you know this is the charge and counter charge of the 15th alabama and the 20th main here let me uh navigate the rest of this path and then i'll pick it up yeah and keep in mind this area has changed dramatically since 1863. the road systems that were put through here were devastating old chamberlain avenue would have been right down through here actually cuts right into the 20th main position uh you would have this intersection over here where warren avenue is this would lead you down to devil's den up the little round top this is just going to change the topography greatly uh to try to understand where the alabamians the 15th and 47th came in and attacked the 20th main as well as company b which would be over in that direction under walter morrell ooh i'm so glad you brought that up chris so cause we're gonna walk over there we're not done yet but here's the view except without all the undergrowth remember this was all grazed by livestock and they were open woodlots you'd be able to see pretty far thanks chris um so you know so you're really looking at it but you know here um is an area where you know the fighting is here and that whole time there are u.s sharpshooters in company b of the 20th maine over at a stonewall what 200 yards away or something like that but before you get there and in this idea that chris just said trying to figure out who's where we have one we have a few great things first of all the 20s made placing their monument and their ledge and somewhere up there i mean it's obvious where the position would be just being here by the terrain but right out there about 70 yards down you're going to see a big rock and colonel william c oates on august 8 1863 wrote in his official report that his unit kept attacking this way and his right was near this rock but then he said he extended his line allowing himself to pivot around that rock and take up a line of rocks that was perpendicular to the one he had just abandoned in other words he went to that rock that you can see and when you go there there's a line of rocks running off exactly perpendicular to this and it's just perfect when an official report and the battlefield together say the same thing boom that's when the historian is happy that's when you have dessert um you're with the american battlefield trust we were just with uh new york times bestselling author jeff shara what a great treat to be with him we hope you'll share this with your friends and we hope you'll read the eagles claw or his numerous civil war books here now we're walking a long little round top and i'm glad chris brought up something else and that is we were talking earlier on part one of this little round top series um you know these uh these roads that are here right chris just mentioned that you see this intersection this intersection disturbed substantial parts of the battlefield where wright avenue and south confederate avenue and warren avenue and sykes avenue actually come together okay you know um but again i mean are you not providing access for visitors you know there is some substantial destruction but i would suggest that what you can see here still gives you a flavor just look at this chris um a good flavor of the position of the 20th main of what the alabamians had to do on a very hot day after an overnight march and man today is hot i can't even imagine if i was carrying 50 pounds of stuff each chris so i just want to piggyback off of what jeff kind of talked about and and memory is very important to civil war historians a lot of people scream about people being revisionist or whatever but you need to study these these folks as people um putting them up on pedestals is it can be very damaging to the way you actually look at folks and you need to look at what they did before the battle of gettysburg what happened at the battle of gettysburg what did they do after the battle of gettysburg what choices did they make in life so as you sit here and you start to look the battle of little round tops not just a civil war battle where the 47th to 15th alabama coming down into this section 20th maine behind us this will turn into a battle of memory after the war um and joshua lawrence chamberlain is one of the central characters as jeff talked about and he will be a polarizing character not only as you heard within the literary community but within the community of the 20th maine ellis spear his second in command here absolutely despises this man after the war he will write pretty much that anything that joshua lawrence chamberlain says is a lie and that he was a liar when i went to college with him and he's a liar today he'll talk about a procession going down through graduation when they go to bowdoin college in the 1880s and chamberlain's the president of bowdoin at that point uh and speer is on the staff as well i believe he's in the mathematics department and he sees the procession go down and someone says there's chamberlain the man who who uh saved a little round top and he supposedly stops a procession according to spear and is going to lean down and say i saved the union at little round top now spear there could be jealousy here this there could be truth and there could be something in the middle um he's going to be very very vitriol in his hatred towards joshua lawrence chamberlain but others will question his his uh interpretation of charging down this hill theodore garrish who has a fanta there's a fantastic book about him talks about it and it doesn't just end here we go over to vincent spur and we talk about strong vincent himself that 26 year old harvard graduate who's mortally wounded up near the 44th new york monument uh he is not going to be able to tell a story but the guide on bearer who is here with him will try to tell that story oliver norton norton meant for throughout much of the battles hiding behind a rock because he's drawing confederate fire because he's holding a big flag up there in later life he's gonna fight the battle to see that strong vincent was the guy who saved a little round top because he was on his staff then you look over at governor kimball warren governor kimball warren 31 years old he's the guy who a lot of people say is the true hero of little round top warren prior to the battle of gettysburg's the chief topographical engineer he goes on after this to become the second core commander then the fifth court commander and eight days before the american civil war ends at the battle of five forks he is relieved of command unfairly warren could have been relieved of command many times during the civil war he was a haughty fellow uh and charles wainwright has the best quote about about uh general warren he'll say that uh he has a screw loose and is not accountable for all of his little freaks uh but warren is what i would call manic depressive and i learned a lot about him learning reading about him reading his letters warren will write to his wife pouring out his heart and when he's relieved to command on april 1st of 1865 five forks a new battle begins and that is the battle over his reputation which he will fight all the way up until his death in fact there'll be a court of inquiry which is the who's who of us military men like fitzhugh lee joshua lawrence chamberlain even george custer from the grave will testify about what happened and what what governor kimball warren did he'll die before the the committee tells what the finding is if he is innocent or guilty and he's found innocent on most of his charges but he's buried before his death in a plain black suit and he tells emily i have just died a disgraced soldier so his friends in 1888 will spend five thousand dollars that equates to 142 thousand dollars today to put the first general officer standing statue on the battlefield here at gettysburg in august of 1888 to tell his story out here on the battlefield the confederates will try to do the same thing william c oates will try to put a monument out here joshua lawrence like yeah that's a great idea and then behind his back would say no no no they didn't do anything what they're saying over here there's another battle that takes place out here and some of these men like patty o'rourke will never be able to tell his story but porter farley one of his his adjutant will be able to tell his story we have stephen weed who's not able to tell his story or charles hazlitt but we have others take up the mantle and usually when they take up the mantle it's because they respected that officer but not always they themselves are trying to shape that historical narrative and that's the narrative that we are still trying to unpack to this day and there's a lot of things that happen out here on the battlefield and near this spot one of my favorite guys is going to be wounded michael bulger of the 47th alabama infantry he's 57 years old he's out here on the battlefield this is a second wound during the war he's wounded in 1862 and the story goes he takes two corn cobs puts them on the side of his wound and then wraps it with some suspenders uh which are you know straps as they called him at the time and he he wraps it up and that's how he he is going to go on here at gettysburg he shot through the breasts thought to be mortally wounded amazingly we'll live until 1900 with that ball lodged here in gettysburg in gettysburg up against his left shoulder blade for the rest of his life so there's all kinds of different stories out here and the confederates have their own problems we can't even get into between john bell hood lafayette mclaughs and james long street that's a story for another time thanks so much chris let's uh keep walking uh that was great stuff chris cause you know i mean these are people just like us it's so easy to think that like chris said earlier these are marble people and you're gonna put them up on a pedestal no when they were going through it maybe they had great responsibilities and maybe later in life people came up to them and they were treated differently but they were just like us they had the same quibbles the same you know hopes and dreams to have you know a safe family and to provide for them and to you know enjoy their lives and stay healthy and everything like that you're with the american battlefield trust we are now walking on the sort of the south slope of little round top this is known as the saddle between big round top which is off to the camera's uh left there and um and little round top so trust me that's big round top over there you can't quite see it and you might be able to catch chris some of these stone walls here most of the stonewalls on the battlefield were not built by soldiers they were built by the veterans themselves i'm sorry i keep saying that uh they were built by the thrifty pennsylvania dutch farmers who had to clear their fields of stone anyway so most of them encircled their properties with stonewalls but no these walls were built by the soldiers themselves mostly after the july 2nd fighting was over then you could say a lot of good it did them then you know so it was built as protection and built from protection against the skirmishing and sharpshooters here we have a wall here actually that some of the pennsylvania reserves and the massachusetts soldiers will use actually later and i'm not sure if chris wants to pull up a photo of 1990s gary where i'm sitting on a rock over there but they had cleared before they were doing controlled burns some of this land in the mid-1990s and i actually came across and i'm pointing to it um one of the missing massachusetts plaques that had been gone for 30 years or something like that and had been missing they were easily broken and someone just stashed it under a rock after it broke and then i was able to give it back to the park i still don't think they've those things aren't meant to last but it is within the park collections and that's great i'm not saying go out to your battlefield and look for things but if you see something tell the park rangers so that it can you know get into the collections and whatnot so you've got these massachusetts soldiers under tilton tilton's brigade hey wait i thought they were fighting near the wheatfield in the trosso farm no they're here on july 3rd just like the pennsylvania reserves fishers brigade mostly are going to be behind the stone wall and then they're going to be up on big round top along with who the 20th maine who after fighting here ended up on top of big round top being the left flank again briefly before more soldiers become the new left flank and it goes all the way out to the tony town road and then it goes all the way out with howe's some of house division out even further than that so the union fishhook is not a fish hook for very long at all and if you want to see a video of us hiking up this old trail look at 157 gettysburg check us out on youtube or facebook we walked up there last year with a whole gaggle of us you know and i actually forgot about that chris thanks for the reminder um so we're coming up and we're we're not going to go too much further here but this is warren avenue it was not here during the battle and many people have started to sort of figured like okay well this is where these woods actually were if you gaze down the road here chris you can see that as we get a little further there's no woods on the right and there are woods on the left that's not how it was for the most part especially as we get down a little further these woods were 150 to 200 yards further back i mentioned that while we were on little round top and why do i care about that well because if the confederates are advancing over an extra 150 yards of terrain and they're launching four or five attacks wow you know that's some uh substantial distance they're having to cover under fire the entire time and i'm gonna show a picture again here that shows just how open this was we're actually looking towards the 83rd pennsylvania monument take my word for it but this is what it would look like as it would be cleared off so this is this hill side's going to change a lot over the years and then one thing i want to point out is the 9th pennsylvania monument i have to point that out because they're a pittsburgh unit and it has one of my favorite uh monuments here on the battlefield of a soldier standing there kind of over another shoulder soldier's grave just kind of pontificating or remembering um one of his friends and that unit will see heavy action as will all the pennsylvania reserves throughout the american civil war and their first commander if you want to look at stories like carol reardon had on one of our other videos look at it in december of 1862 um at the papers around pittsburgh and read about just what this unit and specifically their first commander conrad jackson went through uh he is killed uh at fredericksburg very close to our land at the slaughter pen farm that's great two things real quick number one uh chris what part of pennsylvania are you from uh it would be a western pennsylvania near pittsburgh oh pittsburgh what do you know and then secondly real quick uh um you know let me just save everybody the trouble ninth pennsylvania reserves what is that add 29. add 29 take nine and add 29 and the ninth pennsylvania reserves is the 38th pennsylvania infantry the first pennsylvania infantry first reserves is the 30th pennsylvania infantry there thank me later um so as we walk you might actually get a finally a view of the 83rd pennsylvania monument so you can see how wooded it is actually is around there now and on top is a guy who is not strong vincent it looks just like strong vincent because there was a rule that you could not put your original or any kernel up there on your regimental monument they said okay we'll just put someone up there who looks not only exactly like strong vincent but who looks like strong vincent in the one famous picture of him you know sort of broadchested standing there and getting ready so and they got away with it somehow strong vince it was a beloved character at the time so you know they had to submit the monument it got approved they made it and here it stands to this day and i don't think anybody really minds at this point now the last story and chris might have more to say but the last story i want to tell is um right over here somewhere and it's a story about commercialization at gettysburg so um there was a photographic studio at devil's den near the slaughter pen you've heard us talk about this before there would be a video of it but if chris can find way over there the the photo of the building without anything on it first um you know so there was a commercial building and when the u.s government successfully uh argued in the supreme court that they could condemn land for purposes of a park and the park down at devil's den tipton park was condemned they took a building over there the one that you just saw there or that you're seeing now and they rolled it up here on rollers bodily and they put it right about here i'll be able to show you the actual spot when we when we do the outro here so it was sitting right here and they put it here so that a guy named davey weikert could actually operate a souvenir and snack stand here on little round top they felt bad for the guy he's a local dude and he had lost his sight he's known as blind davey um and and he was able to operate his souvenir stand right here okay uh he was he was hurt while working on the trolley track or or the railroad or something like that they felt bad for him they let him in so there was a souvenir stand here and you could read on the picture maybe what you could get and here's the best part i don't know if you've been actually looking at this already but blind davey you can see him he's got a seeing eye dog blind davey has a gun okay i'll credit tim smith for that particular joke and the shriver house museum in gettysburg which you should check out for that particular photo there and um what i'm going to do is show you the foundation of some of the kind of either plumbing or something they had there and then we'll see if chris has anything else to add the sole remnant of blind davies souvenir stand uh chris anything to add no i think that uh if you get a chance to uh very shortly little round top is going to be closing down but you can check out everything on our virtual tours you can check out our facebook pages and uh with the refurbishment of little round top we'll make it a very very visible place and very visited place once again so get out here if you don't have the chance because it'll be shutting down soon good yeah little round top is being loved to death and that we have to do some restoration it's going to be painful for a year and a half but we'll we'll likely shoot even more videos than we already have up here to try to you know make that pain a little bit less so so thanks to chris for all the filming thanks belatedly again to jeff shara thank you all for watching and for sharing and for supporting battle for your preservation and education you

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