Gettysburg a small Pensylvania town gave the battle its name At its end it became a place of graves Behind the town a small round hill Guarded by the 20th Maine Little Round Top hill now held the flank So that the union troops could now advance If the grey could crush the line They could with their lives buy the time And give Lee the victory he so desired But the hill was strongly held by men Led by Chamberlain Joshua L Chamberlain, a professor was A man who had a love of god But now with blood upon his hand He and the 20 Maine did make their stand On Little Roundtop hill He knew that if his lines did break The conferderates might win the day The war might there be lost With a mighty rebel yell William Oates and his men did charge the hill Into a storm of musket ball and minnie round Now dying men on the ground did fall Time and time again they charged Into that inferno of ******* Never ceasing to give the rebel yell Now Chamberlain with shot near spent Turned and ordered bayonets fixed And charged the rebel line The confederats now turned and fled Down the hill now slick and red With the blood of fallen men Chamberlains men of Maine had won the day From their duty they did not sway For many the hill was their last resting place And in their deaths was no disgrace Chamberlain had held the hill
Joshua L Chamberlain was wounded six times in the civil war