Podcast appearances and mentions of George E Pickett

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About this episode:  In 1948, the Southern novelist, William Faulkner, wrote in Intruder in the Dust, ”For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word…”  Such was the weight and power of events that unfolded on Friday afternoon, July 3rd, 1863.  This is how it came to pass. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: James Longstreet George E. Pickett Lewis Addison Armistead Joseph R. Davis Isaac R. Trimble John M. Brockenbrough Abner Doubleday   For Additional Reading: George R. Stewart, Pickett's Charge, 1991   Allen C. Guelzo, Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, 2014   Stephen W. Sears, Gettysburg, 2004   Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing.   Producer: Dan Irving  

On July 3, 2021, Matt Atkinson led a Battlewalk from the Virginia Memorial across the field of Pickett's Charge to the Union position at The Angle. Many were surprised to see Matt's special guest, actor Stephen Lang, who played General George E. Pickett in the movie Gettysburg. Mr Lang has been a very generous supporter of the Gettysburg Foundation and GNMP. Word is that he postponed his departure for home just to make this appearance. 

Caroline E. Janney’s full title for her talk is “‘One of the Best Loved, North and South’: George E. Pickett’s Widow and Civil War Reconciliation.” She spoke at the conference “Civil War Lives,” held at the Huntington Library in October 2011. Janney is associate professor of history at Purdue University and author of “Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause” (2008).