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Article: Twilight at Little Round Top: July 2, 1863--The Tide Turns at Gettysburg.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- August 1, 2006
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Twilight at Little Round Top: July 2, 1863--The Tide Turns at Gettysburg. By Glenn W. LaFantasie. (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., c. 2005. Pp. xx, 315. $27.95, ISBN 0-471-46231-4.)
The skirmish at Little Round Top caught the public's imagination back in the 1860s, but Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels (New York, 1974), the movie Gettysburg (1993), and Ken Burns's PBS series The Civil War (1989), have made what in Gouverneur Kemble Warren's words was "the key to the whole position" Gettysburg's most visited spot and arguably the most famous skirmish of the Civil War (p. 74). Undeniably, there is something weirdly magical about the place, even if it is ...