Pickett, George E.

[CivilWarTalk]

"Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying. Your soldier lives and mourns and but for you, my darling, he would rather, a million times rather, be back there with his dead, to sleep for all time in an unknown grave."

-- Major General George Pickett, CSA, to his fiancee, July 4, 1863

 

[traveller]

"I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it"

-- Major General George Pickett when asked why the Confederates were defeated at Gettysburg

 

[traveller]

"Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia."

-- Major General George Pickett at Gettysburg

 

[FSPowers]

That man (Lee) destroyed my division.

Pickett following the war.