1. Pickett's Charge
... the carnage they would have otherwise endured on July 2 . He did this to save them for an ultimate attempt to break through the Union line, his purpose all along . Additionally, Lee assumed that the Federal Army's near disaster (from his perspective) in the first two days had ... selected to cross it. Lee dictated his plan of attack to Longstreet, stressing that Pickett's newly arrived division would form the center of the attacking line. To Pickett's right, General Cadmus Wilcox and Colonel William Perry led brigades under General Richard Anderson's division. To Pickett's left, General ...
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