Little Round Top is the smaller of two rocky hills south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—the companion to the adjacent, taller hill named Big Round Top. It was the site of an unsuccessful assault by Confederate troops against the Union left flank on July 2, 1863, the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, during the American Civil War.
"View from the summit of Little Round Top at 7:30 P.M. July 3rd, 1863", painting by Edwin Forbes
Little Round Top (left) and [Big] Round Top, photographed from Plum Run Valley in 1909
Little Round Top photographed in 2006
Little Round Top, western slope, photographed by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1863
Big Round Top is a boulder-strewn hill notable as the topographic high point of the Gettysburg Battlefield and for 1863 American Civil War engagements for which Medals of Honor were awarded. In addition to battle monuments, a historic reconstruction era structure on the uninhabited hill is the Big Round Top Observation Tower Foundation Ruin.
1863 O'Sullivan image of Big Round Top[specify] beyond Little Round Top breastworks