the battlefield visitors center stood near Gettysburg’s “High Water Mark” (the farthest point reached in Pickett’s Charge) and within sight of a wax museum, a restaurant called General ...

To lead the charge General George Edward Pickett (West Point 1846) was selected. At noon his division of less than 5,000 fresh Virginia troops was lined up below Seminary Ridge. At 1 p.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Two stars of the 1993 historical ... Robert E. Lee and Gen. George Pickett, respectively, in the 1993 film, are among the special guests at the event, which will be held ...

On July 3, 1863, 12,500 Confederate soldiers charged across open fields in a desperate bid to break Union lines at Gettysburg. Known as Pickett’s Charge, the assault became one of the Civil War ...