Attack on Little Round Top held by the 5th Corps commanded by General Sykes – Vintage Print
![Attack on Little Round Top held by the 5th Corps commanded by General Sykes, [between 1865 and 1895] — historic image](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f6/f6607464fe39-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic image captures Attack on Little Round Top held by the 5th Corps commanded by General Sykes in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Attack on Little Round Top held by the 5th Corps commanded by General Sykes
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Little Round Top, the rocky hill anchoring the southern end of the Union line at Gettysburg, is the subject here, and the title places the 5th Corps under General George Sykes in the attack on it. On the afternoon of July 2, 1863, the hill's boulders and steep slopes made it a crucial position, and Union defenders, including the 20th Maine under Joshua Chamberlain, fought hard to keep Confederate troops from rolling up the army's flank. Painted some years after the war, the canvas reflects how the late nineteenth century remembered that struggle, with its focus on a single hilltop that came to stand for the battle's turning points.
| Created / published | [between 1865 and 1895] |
|---|---|
| Genre | Oil paintings American 1860-1900. |
| Notes | Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.284) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Sykes, George--1822-1880. Battlefields--1860-1900.United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,176 × 992 px · prints to 7 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176420 |
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