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"For every other action after the Revolutionary War, the militias were useless." really The Battle of Gettysburg is considered to be the turning point of the Civil War. One episode, which helped turn the tide, involved the militia from Maine. Josua L. Chamberlain, a former professor at Maine's Bowdoin College, commanded the 20th Maine Volunteer Militia. Organized in the Maine Volunteer Militia in August 1862, the 20th Maine mustered into Federal service several weeks later. The 20th was ordered to hold critical terrain between Big and Little Round Top at all cost. They held off six attacks by determined Alabama regiments. Chamberlain knew his men didn't have the ammunition to fight off a seventh attack. So he ordered his men to "Fix bayonets!" and charge downhill. The assault stopped the Confederate threat to the Union flank and contributed mightily to an important Union victory. Joshua Chamberlain was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1893 for this action. Almost two years later, Brevet Major General Chamberlain, chosen to accept the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, ordered Union troops to present arms to their former enemy as a mark of respect. The heritage of the 20th Maine is carried on today by the 133d Engineer Battalion, Maine Army National Guard.
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