GDG- "Pickett's Charge" NOT a misnomer

[Robert Lawrence]

Not so silent in many ways. 

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<<Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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<<Faulkner touches, surreptitiously, on the silent tragedy that 
<<haunts the South....
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<<From: "Robert Lawrence" <lawrence at rwlcpa.com>
<<To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
<<Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 2:17 PM
<<Subject: RE: GDG- "Pickett's Charge" NOT a misnomer
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<<Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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<<Well regardless of what we call it this is still the best 
<<analysis of the importance of the  Charge I have run across.
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<<For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but 
<<whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still 
<<not yet two oclock on that July afternoon in 1863, the 
<<brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are 
<<laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already 
<<loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled 
<<ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in 
<<the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give 
<<the word and it's all in the balance, it happened yet, it 
<<hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there 
<<is still time for it not to begin against that position and 
<<those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and 
<<Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to 
<<begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much 
<<at stake and that moment doesn't even need a 
<<fourteen-year-old boy to think THIS TIME. MAYBE THIS TIME 
<<with all this much to lose and all this much to
<<gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of 
<<Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory....
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<<---William Faulkner, INTRUDER IN THE DUST (1948) pp. 194-195
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