View from the McMillan Woods towards Cemetery Ridge. 15,000 troops under General Picket charged the US Army under General Hancock.
General Longstreet, the Corps commander was so convinced that the attack would fail, he bordered on insubordination trying to convince Robert E Lee to call off the attack. When it came time to issue the order, Longstreet was in tears and only nodded his head.
Pickett's division was slaughtered by rifles and canon fire as they slogged uphill over open, exposed ground.
Virginia Monument in the foreground.
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