Pickett's Charge - Two scene's from the Movie "Gettysburg".
How it looks today - "The High Water mark of the Confederacy"
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Pickett's Charge remembered - 148 years later:
Today is the 148th anniversary of day 3 of the Battle of Gettysburg - commonly known as the turning point of the Civil War. Day 3 was marked by Pickets Charge which is commonly known as the "High Water Point of the Confederacy" where about 15,000 Southern troops, mainly from Virginia, attacked across a mile wide farmland against Union Forces - and were defeated. Some have argued this is the central focal point in all of American History!
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I always wondered why it was called Pickett's Charge. Pickett was just one of three division commanders involved. The charge was Lee's - he ordered it, in spite of Dutch Longstreet's repeated arguments against it. Longstreet correctly told Lee that "no fifteen thousand men ever born could take that hill," and boy was he proven right.
Gettysburg gets the glory and Pickett's Charge is a dramatic story easily told understood.
I personally think the Battle of Antietam, aka Sharpsburg, in September 1862 was the turning point of the war.
Lincoln did too.
But Antietam was a complex battle, not easily understood, with no obvious climax, or clear outcome.
KTWO
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