addition, the value of Little Round Top as an artillery position has been overstated—the shape of the crest of the hill forces guns to be placed one behind the other, limiting their effectiveness when engaging targets directly to the north, such as the Union line on Cemetery Ridge. While Chamberlain and the 20th Maine have gained popularity in the American national consciousness, other historical figures such as Strong Vincent, Patrick O'Rourke, and Charles Hazlett arguably played equal roles in the Union success at Little Round Top. Their deaths at the scene, however, did not allow their personal stories to be told. Postbellum history During visits by 13 generals in 1865, points were identified on Little Round Top at which markers were subsequently erected, and a observatory was built by 1886, before a stone monument with observation deck was dedicated to the 44th New York in 1892. In the late 1880s, the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment monument on Little Round Top was dedicated with a speech by Joshua Chamberlain. In 1935, two "hairpin curves" of the avenue on Little Round Top were removed by the Continental Contracting Company to create a "by-pass, a stretch of .399 mile," from the Round Top Museum southward to north of the guard station on the south slope at Sykes Avenue and Chamberlain Avenue was subsequently closed. The summit parking lot was also created at this time. In popular culture The battle for Little Round Top is a key plot point of Ward Moore's 1953 alternate history novel Bring the Jubilee. The 1974 novel The Killer Angels, and its 1993 film adaptation, Gettysburg, depicted a portion of this battle. Filmmaker Ken Burns praised Chamberlain in his PBS documentary The Civil War and in subsequent interviews for possibly saving the Union with his actions during the engagement. In the 2016 song "Ballad of the 20th of Maine" by Maine folk group The Ghost Of Paul Revere, the famous bayonet charge and Andrew Tozier's defiant stand is chronicled: "Well, our western flank was missing / As the confederates pushed on / And we fought them tooth and nail / Our ammunition all but gone ... Then appeared our lion roaring bayonets / Charging down the mountain with what soldiers we had left / We were steadfast as katahdin, hard as winters rain". See also Big Round Top Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District Gettysburg National Military Park Notes References