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Pickett's Charge
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Pickett's Charge
[File:Pickett's-Charge.png|thumb|350px|Map of Pickett's Charge, July 3, 1863.
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Pickett's Charge
was an
infantry
assault ordered by
Confederate
Gen.
Robert E. Lee
against
Maj. Gen.
George G. Meade
's
Union
positions on
Cemetery Ridge
on July 3, 1863, the last day of the
Battle of Gettysburg
in the state of
Pennsylvania
during the
American Civil War
. Its futility was predicted by the charge's commander,
Lt. Gen.
James Longstreet
, and it was arguably an avoidable mistake from which the
Southern
war effort never fully recovered militarily or psychologically. The farthest point reached by the attack has been referred to as the
high-water mark of the Confederacy
.
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