Wait I forget did Lee order Picket to charge or was that Picket being a complete dumbass?
24 0 ReplyLee ordered the charge. Longstreet cautioned against it, Pickett just carried it out.
30 0 ReplyPickett probably:
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Same thing happened to the Union at Fredericksburg. Arguably worse.
Union troops at Gettysburg started changing "Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg" as Pickett started up the hill, for a reason...
12 0 ReplySomething something learn from mistakes of others.
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Fun Civil War fact: Lee was absent from class at West Point the day they discussed not fighting uphill. He skipped class to participate in a drinking contest with none other than a young Ulysses S. Grant.
20 0 ReplyPlease tell me you have a source for this golden nugget
7 0 Replyt. It came to me in a dream
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Excuse me, but JOR BIDEN SO BAT GENERCIDE.
6 0 Reply"Meh" - Theodore Roosevelt
2 0 Reply"Let's fight uphill, me boys!"
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