GDG- "Pickett's Charge" NOT a misnomer

[Char & Charlie]

Let's see 

Pickett - 3 brigades ~5500 men
Pettigrew/Trimble - 6 brigades ~7000 men

All progressing in two lines together and guiding on Archer's brigade
(Fry's) in Pettigrew's Div.  I would not call Pickett in the lead and all
other's supporting his movement.


Charlie
Somewhere in the USA
 


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> Subject: Re: GDG- "Pickett's Charge" NOT a misnomer
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> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
> 
> 
> In a message dated 3/2/07 5:34:10 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
> toddest at gmail.com 
> writes:
> 
> > don't know how touchy this topic is among Gettysburg 
> historians, but 
> > it seems to me that all things considered, it is still 
> appropriate to 
> > call the assault on day 3 "Pickett's Charge". I realize 
> that Pickett 
> > did not command all of the forces on the field, but his 
> division was 
> > the lead, and the others, especially Trimble's, were intended as 
> > support.
> > 
> 
> I hesitate to view Pettigrew's/Heth's division as merely 
> being support to 
> Pickett's.  It seems to me that Pettigrew and Pickett pretty 
> much advanced 
> simultaneously and in parallel, hitting the Union defenses 
> essentially at the same 
> time.  Indeed, it appears that during the advance Pickett 
> closed to the left in 
> order to connect with Pettigrew, in my mind indicating that 
> Pettigrew was not 
> in just a supporting role.
> 
> Bruce Trinque
> Amston, CT
> 
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