My favorite battlefields.

[selmaborntidefan]

I’m looking over where Pickett began his charge (at the trees a mile away). Great day here today.

 

[UAH]

I’m looking over where Pickett began his charge (at the trees a mile away). Great day here today.
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Gettysburg and Pickett's charge has always perplexed many of us. How men could be asked to cross those fences under fire and attack a fortified position that commanded the heights is a profound mystery. I have been watching a civil war history channel that reviews the writings of participants both Union and Confederate involved in the charge on that day. Longstreet delayed until the last possible moment but Lee compelled it. A difficult legacy to bear I believe.