Pickett Brass Napoleon Award Voting - Pickett Forum

Choose the Brass Napoleon Award Winner

  • Does Pickett deserve a monument?

    Votes: 4 33.3%
  • Your Opinion of General George Pickett?

    Votes: 3 25.0%
  • Was Pickett confident his attack at Gettysburg would succeed.

    Votes: 5 41.7%

  • Total voters
    12
  • Poll closed .

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Does Pickett deserve a monument?

Your Opinion of General George Pickett?

Was Pickett confident his attack at Gettysburg would succeed.
 
One has a hard time coming up with any kind of excuse for erecting a monument to George Pickett. Gettysburg aside, his military accomplishments were meager at best.

Worst of all was his murder/execution of Prisoners of War, mostly due to his own embarrassment at being badly whipped by Union forces.

After the war he fled like a coward to Canada to avoid the justice he richly deserved, but his old friend and then President US Grant pardoned him.

Pickett was a weak man, an incompetent general and a murderer.
 
No, he does not deserve a monument in my opinion.
As a general, mediocre at best.
As to his confidence his attack at Gettysburg would succeed I have no opinion.

John
 
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