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Around dusk on July 2, 1863, following the afternoon battle on Little Round Top, Colonel James Clay Rice, brigade commander following the death of Colonel Strong Vincent, approached the 20th Maine to discuss advancing and seizing the western slope of Big Round Top, where Confederate troops had been driven.  As Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain noted in his official report following the battle, “We were apprehensive that if the enemy were allowed to strengthen himself in that position, he would have a great advantage in renewing the attack on us at daylight or before. Colonel Rice then directed me to make the movement to seize that crest. It was now 9 p.m.”