Posted on 04/01/2023 5:45:35 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
General Thomas Rosser invites Generals George Pickett and Fitzhugh Lee to join him for lunch. By all accounts, the baked shad was excellent, and the gentlemen enjoyed a pleasant afternoon.
Did they fight for the Union or the Confederacy?
“Pickett’s Charge” at Gettysburg was when much of the South’s army was destroyed.
They fought for the Confederacy. Rosser and Lee later fought for the Union in the Spanish American War.
As a long time lurker of FR and Civil War buff, I had to post a reply. During that shad bake, Union Genereral Sheridan’s cavalry attacked at Five Forks and broke the long siege at Petersburg. All while Pickett and Fitzugh Lee abandoned their commands and enjoyed dinner.
Richmond fell soon after.
Robert E. Lee never forgave Pickett.
They were away from their troops when Union forces attacked. Pickett had not delegated command in his absence. Also, they were sitting in an “acoustic shadow,” where the sounds of the battle were dissipated. Pickett return to his division too late to prevent its collapse.
And Pickett never forgave Lee for Gettysburg.
All three were Generals in the Confederate Army.
Nope, Pickett never did.
Several years later, Lee and Pickett met during a chance encounter at a hotel room in Richmond at the behest of former Confederate cavalry commander John Singleton Mosby. From his account, they were very cold to each other.
When leaving, Pickett told Mosby, “That old man had my division massacred at Gettysburg.âÂÂâÂÂ
Mosby replied, âÂÂWell, it made you immortal,âÂÂ
Yes sir, that is correct. It’s funny how acoustic shadow works. There were times on deployments we couldn’t hear artillery firing from less than 5 â 10 kilometers away, but we could see their impact.
Eighty years later to the day, in 1945, the invasion of Okinawa began. That day was Easter Sunday.
On July 4th Vicksburg fell to Union force and the South was literally split in two with the Union gaining control of the vital Mississippi River. But the two of them continued the slaughter for another two years.
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