Walking In Armistead's Footsteps 150 Years Later – Gettysburg Day 3 – Pickett's Charge
The monuments on Cemetery Ridge call it “Longstreet’s Assault”, but it goes down in history and popular imagination as “Pickett’s Charge”. Longstreet’s Assault is more accurate, since Pickett commanded only one of the three divisions. I thought that shift might have been post-war revisionism, since Longstreet fell out of favor among Lost Cause historians. Fred Wieners, our tour guide on Saturday, told me that it was more a matter of Pickett being popular with the Richmond press. He also told us that the idea of a frontal assault on the center after a heavy artillery barrage was probably inspired by the Battle of Solferino in 1859. It worked then. The consequence of the Battle of Solferino was the independence of Italy.
Did Doris Kearns Goodwin Blow It At Gettysburg ?
I think one of the things that we as individual Americans need to always remember is that if something really bad happens in our community, the outpouring of generous support and, if required acts of heroism, will be, in some arbitrarily large percentage, from people with whom we profoundly disagree on deeply held moral beliefs.
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