Stiles/Akin
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Apr 1, 2016
- Location
- Atlanta, Georgia
After two days of inconclusive fighting at Gettysburg, Lee ordered an attack against the center known as “Pickett’s Charge.” Colonel Edward P. Alexander’s artillery tried to weaken the Union defenses, after which the infantry, under command of Lieutenant General James Longstreet, charged the Union center. Longstreet asked Alexander to advise Pickett whether or not to make the charge based on his artillery’s effectiveness, and Alexander’s postwar scrapbook included Longstreet’s original battlefield notes and his own replies.
Annotation by Alexander. E.P. Alexander Papers, L of C.
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The Longstreet Society
Annotation by Alexander. E.P. Alexander Papers, L of C.
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The Longstreet Society