Fortifications on Little Round Top Then & Now

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This photograph was taken in Little Round Top.

Little Round Top was not only a valuable defense point because of its height, but also because of its natural geography. The ‘mountain’, as some soldiers called it, was littered with large boulders which provided Union soldiers shelter from Confederate bullets. The three large boulders in this photograph would have given protection to the soldiers taking aim from behind them. Temporary stone walls would have been easy to build with the vast number of rocks nearby. This scene was captured by Timothy O’Sullivan just days after the battle.