Summer Vacation

Pickett's famous charge at Gettysburg, in that its author was the wife of the Confederate commander who led the heroic but unsuccessful assault on Cemetery Ridge, July 3, 1863, the third and last day of the most important and hotly contested battle of the Civil War. It marked the turning point. Lee had ordered Longstreet to send Pickett's division of 5,000 Confederates against the Federal center, as the climax of a terrific artillery duel between the Confederates, with 150 guns, attacking the Federals, with about 70 guns, on Cemetery Ridge. In order to save ammunition, in anticipation of the attack, the Federals stopped firing, thereby deceiving the enemy as to their ammunition supply. In the magnificent charge that followed, two-thirds of Pickett's men were killed, wounded or captured.

There goes your army.