In a little less than one hour from now, exactly 156 years ago then men from Pickett’s, Pettigrew’s, and Trimble’s divisions set forth across the open ground towards the Union troops entrenched on the high ground around Cemetery Hill.
And suffered a defeat so resounding and horrific “Pickett’s Charge’’ has become a noun in military terms to proceed with a strategy or attack that is doomed to failure from the start.