Posted on 07/30/2025 8:46:17 AM PDT by Borges
I saw nothing in the media marking it. Pickett's Charge is certainly a keynote moment in American history.
Clapping madly. Didn’t see anything like that. Incredibly neat!
He could have won the Civil War for Lee, but he insisted on waiting to the midnight hour when his love came tumbling down.
He could have won the Civil War for Lee, but he insisted on waiting to the midnight hour when his love came tumbling down.
He could have won the Civil War for Lee, but he insisted on waiting to the midnight hour when his love came tumbling down.
When asked if Stonewall Jackson would have made a difference at Gettysburg, the great historian Dr Roberson said no. The way Jackson travelled (20 mi a day) - there would be no meet up at Gettysburg. More like in Schenectady NY. He was a fan of General Jackson
Years later and in their final visit, George Pickett with Col John Mosby left Lee’s house in Richmond. Still smarting to John Mosby as they walked, about losing his division. But John Mosby said ‘true George; but, he made you, immortal.’ Mosby BTW knew two soldiers (one who died at Gettysburg), and much later in life as an old man, befriended a young kid in California over their love of horses. The men who died (in PA and VA) were named Patton. Their nephew, who they never got to met but Mosby did, was George Patton.
My great-grandfather and his three brothers served under Armistead in the battle. One uncle as wounded and another was captured. Wounded uncle died of wounds convalescing.
“Longstreet dragged his posterior on the second day...”
There was a YouTube video were they re-created the flank march on the 2nd Day at Gettysburg. The instructions to the cavalry scouts leading the line of march was to avoid observation by the Union scouts assumed to be on Little Roundtop. Bottomline: there was a lot of counter-marching because the topography was not well known and the nearer road was observable from LRT. Longstreet’s assault took hours longer than anticipated to reach their jumping off point for the assault.
Lee's battle plan for July 2 aimed at taking Cemetery Hill and attacking what Lee regarded as weak Union flanks that resulted from the poor disposition weak organization of their forces. Longstreet did not attach great importance to taking Little Round Top because Lee's plan did not.
Why was that? As it was, Lee did not want or expect a bloody positional battle at Gettysburg. He intended on swiftly defeating the federals and then moving deeper into the North and menacing several major cities so as to spur antiwar sentiment. Lee's battle plans at Gettysburg thus aimed at such a result, not a pitched battle.
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