11PICKETT’S CHARGE—BATTLE OF GETTYSBURGU.S. CIVIL WAR (1863)
ON THROWING GOOD RESOURCES AFTER BAD
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 andmourns 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, CONFEDERATE STATESOF AMERICA, TO HIS FIANCÉE, JULY 4, 1863
Pickett’s Charge was an infantry assault ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge on the last day of the Battle ...
Get Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World’s Greatest Military Victories now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
