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>> fire! >> fire! [ cheering continues ] >> let's go. >> the hill is ours! >> for one fleeting moment after armistead's charge over the wall, it looks as if the south has won the war. >> fire! >> pickett's charge was doomed to failure. pickett's force begins receiving direct fire and is devastated. >> of the nearly 15,000 confederate soldiers who participate in the charge, nearly half will become casualties. >> pickett's charge is known as the high-water mark of the confederacy, the closest rebel troops would come to winning the

Union troops rages, before finally coming to a head on a hill called little round top. [ gunfire ] at little round top, union troops from the 20th maine and confederate regiments from texas and alabama engage in a hellacious battle for a small piece of high ground that could tip the balance of the war. >> little round top was the left end of the union lines and little round top has to be the anchor of meade's position. and meade understands that that high ground there -- he has to have that. >> fire! >> the ammunition's nearly gone, >> if we lose this hill... we may well lose the war.

>> deliver...one last shot. >> fire! >> fire! [ cheering continues ] >> let's go. >> the hill is ours! >> for one fleeting moment after armistead's charge over the wall, it looks as if the south has won the war. >> fire! >> pickett's charge was doomed to failure. pickett's force begins receiving direct fire and is devastated. >> of the nearly 15,000 confederate soldiers who participate in the charge, nearly half will become casualties. >> pickett's charge is known as the high-water mark of the confederacy, the closest rebel troops would come to winning the

The responsibility of that day. >> you must advance now. >> general longstreet. ♪ i shall move my men forward, sir. >> fire! >> do not forget that you are from old virginia! [ all cheering ] forward! march! >> forward! march! >> with unshakable faith in robert e. lee, pickett and his men believe they are marching toward immortal glory. in reality, they're on a fool's errand, headed towards certain doom. >> fire! ♪ >> this is a collaborative, improvisational conversation about politics and life. >> everybody at "the five" comes with a background and an expertise. >> no one says news has to ...

>> leading the union fight to hold little round top are two men who are out of their element -- holman melcher, a schoolteacher, and joshua chamberlain, a college professor. >> joshua chamberlain was a professor at bowdoin college. he then applied for a sabbatical and used that sabbatical to become lieutenant colonel of the 20th maine infantry. and as little round top comes under assault, it was left to chamberlain to anchor that extreme left. >> fire! come on! pour it into it, boys! damned, if we could take this hill... >> shall we call a retreat?