A “GREAT RIGHT WHEEL” OF SORTS
oughly since Ken Burns called Little Round Top charge a “textbook military maneuver,” the notion the regiment executed a practiced maneuver as its colonel shouted orders has become widely accepted, with phrases such as “a gate swinging on a post” and “great right wheel” the norm among descriptive narratives. There are, however, a number of theories and reminiscences that suggest these events transpired in a different manner.
