Pickett’s Charge is the most popular portions of the Gettysburg Battlefield.
I planned to walk and leave my footprints but because of heavy rains yesterday left the battleground saturated and difficult to walk across
So I started where General Robert Lee stood and the only statue of a Confederate solder on the battlefield.
Pickett‘s Charge was one of the most famous infantry attacks of the American Civil War. Lasting about an hour. Over 12,000 Confederates crossed this field and 6,000 would be casualties.
I climbed every tower and monument and ended up on the Union side
One of the enduring legends of the Civil War is the friendship of General Lewis Armistead and General Winfield Scott Hancock, long time friends who fought against one another here at the the most famous battle’s of the war.
Armistead’s brigade of Virginia achieved the farthest of any other Confederate unit and would reach the Union side known as the “The Angie” when he was gunned down by Hancock’s Pennsylvania solders
Hancock was also wounded at about the same time a few 100 yards south of Armistead.
Armistead would die, Hancock would survive the rest of the war and run for President in 1880.
The South would lose 20 Battle Flags in this battle.
And I did leave my Footprints
