"Glory Enough for One Hundred Years": An Aide Recalls Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg

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• MI

  @michaellynnhardy · 1 year ago

  Listening and picturing make for a powerful experience

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• NA

  @nathanfisher1826 · 1 year ago

  Thank you

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• MY

  @mysticmimaw · 1 year ago

  Thanks Ron 😊

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• DA

  @Dav1Gv · 1 year ago

  Thanks for reading this, I think it's up there with Haskell's account. As somone from the UK I feel the really sad thing is that the account could have been used with only the names changed about the British attack on 1 July 1916 which opened the Battle of the Somme. As General Sherman said 'War is Hell' and I've no doubt there are many Ukrainians and Russians who would feel the same.

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• JA

  @jannarkiewicz633 · 11 months ago

  Thx Ron

• FR

  @frankgulla2335 · 1 year ago

  Ron, that is a remarkable narrative of the amazing event on Jul 3rd.  I would love to know your take on its authenticity.  It seems to be backed up with CSA sources.  I would love to know what the Union said had to say.  And what happened to the those Union troops that pulled forward on Pickets right???

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• DA

  @davidpitchford6510 · 9 months ago

  gory enough.

• PA

  @paulhatto6499 · 1 year ago

  38th Virginia Cascade Rifles Co. K Was there

• WM

  @wmschooley1234 · 1 year ago

  After the bitter retreat at Gettysburg Picket resented Lee because he “had murdered his division.” The same Captain Robert Bright, highlighted in todays video,  later wrote Pickett “felt that it was due to want of proper concert of action and reckless disregard of his troops, if not actual incompetency, on the part of Lee.” Pickett likely went to his grave resenting Lee for what he saw as a betrayal at Gettysburg. Nonetheless, Lee, Picket and Bright were still together and paroled out of the ANV in 1865 when Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House

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• ER

  @Eric-om9dw · 1 year ago

  Pickett,  a soldier , doing his utmost to duty first. And they showed shirtails more than not,  following. But duty bound. I  admire his integrity no matter the cloth.

• AN

  @andywindes4968 · 1 year ago

  These former Confederates show a level of admiration for Pickett that's hard to understand.  When you look over the totality of his career, it's hard to find much in the way of success, but it's easy to find many instances where he exhibited extremely poor judgement.  How ironic that history often immortalizes "glorious failures."

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• OL

  @oldgeezerproductions · 1 year ago

  How ironic that the memory of great events will live forever and in great honor if the powers organize a spectacular show whereby thousands of brave men get to show their bravery by marching, with flags flying and boots polished and in perfect marching order to their most gruesome and numerous deaths.  As a participant in the 135th Gettysburg reenactment, I witnessed the full-scale reenactment of Pickett's Charge and it was indeed an awesome spectacle, but this time without the dreadful human cost.  All those men who gave everything they were, everything they had ever been and everything they would ever be, all ended up as nameless, faceless pieces of dead clay and except for the tiny few that Ron mentions, they remain so.  And they all up dead and rotting nameless corpses for what (?) honor, duty, the hoped for preservation of slavery, to keep the rich, rich?

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