Aw, man! Now I have to do a web search on George Pickett!
Glad you posted this. Gettysburg was a major big deal. Walked that area and touched deeply. The one I really loved was Longstreet. Have a lot of original bios from that period, including his. Took a leaf from the grave in Maine of Chamberlain. Another amazing man.
I blame Jeb Stuart
Gettysburg - Soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiZ8cTeeeLE
Gettysburg - If It Be Your Will - Leonard Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsu8XpMV5nQ
The Characters in the Gettysburg movie
https://www.iment.com/maida/tv/misc/gettysburg.htm
As a young boy I walked the field at Gettysburg. They had old guys dressed in Union or Souther uniforms, who were near to the conflict talke about it to visitors.
It is hard to imagine 10,000 men march into a wall of steel death only to breach the split rail fencing and a few surrender.
General Lee, I have no division.....
Pickett outlived Robert E. Lee by almost 5 years. I don’t think he ever forgave Lee for ordered the charge.
We have all enjoyed his fences, ever since.
Here’s a video of veterans attending the 50th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, at Gettysburg. Included was a reenactment of Pickett’s charge.
But this time the advancing old men in gray were embraced by the old men in blue.
https://youtu.be/mVjD2DaB4bY?si=QYLyipBSIS7PrVMM
Pickett was a significant figure in the so-called Pig War (1859) in Washington state.
From Gone With The Wind
RHETT:
There’s a little battle going on right now, that
ought to pretty well fix things. One way or
the other.
SCARLETT:
Oh, Rhett, is Ashley in it?
RHETT:
So you still haven’t gotten the wooden headed Mr.
Wilkes out of your mind? Yes, I suppose he’s in it.
SCARLETT:
Oh, tell me, Rhett, where is it?
RHETT:
Some little town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg.
Wilson Picket died 19 years ago in January.
Mistake by Lee
Should have taken high ground first afternoon
Can’t win forever in a strategic long shot war anyhow
Inventer of the slide rule. And fence.
Comradeship between Custer and classmates who had become confedrates during the war, including attending a confederate wedding.
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/george-custer-and-the-confederate-wedding.191231/
Pickett followed orders. RE Lee threw the dice and got snake eyes that day.
I always did like his hit song “Mustang Sally”.
Many years later, when asked for the millionth time, “what went wrong during the charge?”, Pickett finally conceded that, “I think the Yankees had something to do with it.”
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He could have won the Civil War for Lee, but he insisted on waiting to the midnight hour when his love came tumbling down.