Who Were the Men of Pickett's Charge??

One of the most famous and controversial moments of the battle was “Pickett’s Charge,” a failed Confederate direct assault against the Union battlefront that has since become a symbol of gallant bravery and terrible sacrifice. Even today, 160 years later, the grim details of that terrible feat still echo across the empty fields where that final, brutal charge took place, and where so many desperate Confederate soldiers faultlessly obeyed their orders to march into the fire.

 

2:15 Who was James Pettigrew

6:35 Who was Alexander Hays

9:42 Who was Issac Trimble

14:55 Who was John Gibbon

17:25 Who was George Pickett

19:21 Who was James Longstreet

23:43 Who was Winfield Scott Hancock

26:26 Casualties of Pickett's Charge

29:45 Pettegrew after

30:25 Hays after

30:38 Trimble After

31:07 Gibbons after

32:05 Pickett after

33:03 Longstreet after

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