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.

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 ...