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Jan 5, 2012 · In a postwar letter to Confederate General Lafayette McLaws, Longstreet pointed to the Union catastrophe at Fredericksburg in December 1862 as an indication of “the advantage of receiving instead of giving the attack.” “Under no circumstances were we to give battle,” Longstreet insisted in the same letter, “but to exhaust our skill in ...
He dashed off a hasty note to Longstreet, urging him to begin the infantry attack. “If you are coming at all,” Alexander wrote, “you must come immediately or I cannot give you proper support.”
Sep 23, 1998 · As Longstreet and Pickett watched the cannonade from the south end of Seminary Ridge, a messenger galloped up from Alexander. “If you are coming at all you must come immediately or I cannot give you proper support,” Alexander had written. Slowly and carefully, Longstreet read the message. “General, shall I advance?” Pickett asked.
Jul 3, 2014 · In Longstreet’s memoir, the tortured corps commander recalled his response when Pickett asked him, “General, shall I advance?” Longstreet’s misgivings were so profound that he literally...
Pickett's Charge (July 3, 1863), was an infantry assault on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania during the Civil War.Ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee against Major General George G. Meade's Union positions on Cemetery Hill, the attack was a costly mistake that decisively ended Lee's invasion of the north and forced a retreat back to Virginia.
- July 3, 1863( 1863-07-03)
- Union victory
At 2:00 p.m. on July 3, 1863 following a heavy artillery barrage, approximately 11,500 Confederates under James Longstreet’s command stepped off from Seminary Ridge to begin Pickett’s Charge against the center of George Meade’s Union army on Cemetery Ridge.
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Pickett’s after-battle report was reportedly extremely bitter, and General Lee forced Pickett to destroy it. Cavalry Captain John Singleton Mosby explained that after the war, Pickett still blamed Lee for the devastating losses and held bitter resentment for the old general.
