It’s also Frank Zamboni’s birthday.................
“General Pickett, you must look to your division, sir.”
“General Lee, I have no division.”
Almost exactly one year younger than Stonewall Jackson (born Jan. 21, 1824).
Thanks for this. I haven’t thought about him in perhaps years. Pickett’s Charge was absolutely tragic. Shouldn’t be forgotten.
He was a CSA Major General.
Wilson Pickett died January 19, 2006
Late in his life, when he was asked for the umpteenth time, “why do you think that the charge failed?”, Pickett finally answered, “I think the Yankees had something to do with it.”
It was not Pickett’s decision to make that charge. It was Lee himself against all advice from nearly all his Generals, especially Longstreet. Lee won very few battle on the offensive, lost very few on the defensive. He was not the brilliant tactician we read about but some of the Generals around him were, like Stonewall Jackson and even Longstreet who recognized the value of defense over offense.
wonder if he voted for kamala...