Pickett's Charge

<P>At Gettysburg on July 3 1863 Confederate soldiers launched one of history's most famous infantry assaults: Pickett's Charge. Using the participants' own words Richard Rollins deftly reconstructs that momentous event. Separate sections cover planning and preparation; the preliminary artillery barrage; the charges of Pickett's Pettigrew's and Trimble's Divisions; and defensive actions up and down the Federal line. From the generals who devised the assault to the lower-level officers and men who bravely walked through shell and shot Rollins offers a comprehensive panoramic view of the charge with more than 150 firsthand accounts—including accounts from Lee Longstreet Pickett Meade and Hancock—many of them long forgotten and previously unpublished.</P>