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Hazlett’s Battery at 160

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With the 160th Anniversary of the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg today, comes the news from the West Point Museum, which, in conjunction with the Gettysburg National Military Park and the American Battlefield Trust, made a return to Little Round Top with a pair of relics, at least for the day.

We had the honor of returning the West Point Battery’s, aka “Hazlett’s Battery,” [Battery D of the 5th United States Artillery] guidon and Brig. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren’s field glasses to their locations on Little Round Top for the first time since the battle.”

For a deeper dive into the significance of the act, check out the below from the American Battlefield Trust.

Chamberlain’s CMOH Found by Accident after 120 Years

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If you look at Gettysburg as being the pivotal moment of the US Civil War, and the capture and defense of Little Round Top being the pivotal factor of it, than the most historically important man of that argument is Joshua Chamberlain.

A college professor who went off to war as a volunteer, he was appointed the commanding Colonel of the 20th Maine Regiment just a month before Gettysburg. There, on the 2nd Day at Gettysburg, he counter-charged the Confederates and held the strategic hill. Jeff Daniels played him in the Killer Angels/Gettysburg movie a few years ago.

Well, he didn’t receive his MOH until 1893 and until this month, that medal itself was lost to history.

But no longer. It was found in a church sale in the back of a book.

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