July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Partly-printed Document Signed by Erastus Counce, in which Private Counce, of Company I, 20th Maine Infantry, seeks an additional bounty due him after an act of Congress was passed in 1866, 2pp. quarto, and in Fine condition. The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a combat unit of the United States Army during the American Civil War, most famous for its defense of Little Round Top at the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. When the regiment came under heavy attack from the Confederate 15th Alabama regiment, part of the division led by Maj. Gen. John Bell Hood, the 20th Maine completely ran out of ammunition after three to four hours of continued fighting; it responded to the sight of rebel infantry forming again for yet another push at them by charging downhill with fixed bayonets, surprising and scattering the Confederates, thus ending the attack on the hill. The 20th Maine and the adjacent 83rd Pennsylvania together captured over 400 men from the 47th and 15th Alabama regiments.
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