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To: Brumar89 who wrote (874325)	7/21/2015 5:35:01 PM
From: jlallen	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577332

My namesake. John Allen was a blacksmith who served in the 20th Maine at Little Round Top...so I am a bit of a Civil War History buff.... Perhaps the most critical point of the Union line was the extreme left, held by less than 360 men of the 20th Maine Regiment under Col. Joshua Chamberlain, a former minister and professor. If they gave way, the Federals would be outflanked. Opposing them were nearly 650 Confederates of the 47th and 15th Alabama. When his men ran low on ammunition Chamberlain ordered a bayonet charge. Whether he conceived the idea himself or it came from 1st Lt. Holman S. Melcher, the charge successfully broke up a flanking attempt by the 15th Alabama and drove them back, whereupon Company B of the 20th Maine and members of the 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters, concealed behind a stone wall, opened fire, finishing the Alabamians’ attacks for the day.