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Late on the second day, the 358 men of the 20th Maine Volunteers held the southern end of the Union line on the southern slopes of Little Round Top, where failure to stop the Confederate attack could have unhinged the Federal line. For more than an hour, waves of Alabamians repeatedly assaulted the hillside from below but were repulsed each time in a struggle so deadly that blood stood in puddles on the rocks. When the regiment's ammunition was nearly exhausted, Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain ordered a bayonet charge that drove the Alabamians back for good and secured the Union left flank on ground he had been ordered to hold at all hazards.
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