Walking In Armistead's Footsteps 150 Years Later – Gettysburg Day 3 – Pickett's Charge
They started forming us into lines to make the march. Originally it was going to be two lines, but as we stretched out, they had us double up and make it four. I don’t know if Armistead’s brigade ended up being the most popular, but it probably was. Combine that with there being only eight brigades rather than eleven and there being even more people getting ready to cross the field than there had been 150 years ago.
Gettysburg Interlude – Understanding Historiography
We get along by practicing a form of apartheid. The educational system is neo-abolitionist. Popular culture remains Lost Cause to a significant extent. The educational system does not pay very much attention to the actual war. Civil War buffs do not pay very much attention to what happened other than things relating to the actual conduct of the war.
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