George Edward Pickett was born in Richmond, Virginia on January 28, 1825. He came from an old Virginia family that had arrived in the colony in 1635. Pickett attended the United States military academy at West Point where he graduated last in a class of 59. Along with him in West Point were classmates who would also become generals; they were George B. McClellan and Thomas J. Jackson. After West Point; General Pickett served with honor in the Mexican War from 1846 to 1847. He served in Texas; Virginia; and Washingto
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