And Pickett never forgave Lee for Gettysburg.
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