[circlecity]

"So perhaps Pickett’s charge was a calculated gamble."

Then it was a terrible calculation. Lee had already seen at Malvern Hill and Fredericksburg the results of an uphill massed charge over open ground against an entrenched enemy - annihilation. Longstreet saw it and did everything he could to change Lee's mind. "Sir, no 15 thousand men who ever took the field of battle could take that hill"

[poconopundit]

You’re a student of history. Good analysis.