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To: IraqVet-19D

And Pickett never forgave Lee for Gettysburg.


7 posted on 04/01/2023 7:27:08 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: TTFlyer

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.”​

Mosby replied, “Well, it made you immortal,”


9 posted on 04/01/2023 11:18:07 AM PDT by IraqVet-19D
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