contribution? general pickett to that time was known as a confederate commander, but after the charge he was known world over. pickett s under james long street in july 1 1863 in gettysburg. commanded by general robert elee. he was looking for a great victory on union soil. federal army holds high ground, lee orders a controversial attack, an assault on center of the union line, general pickett s troops are assigned to brake through the middle. quit right now we re on the confederate side. on the ground that pickett s division came across, you see how ground slopes away here, then you start off, steady slope up to where the trees are.
middle. that is what he said, he could not over estimate or underestimate the value of it. russ comes up with an offer to buy most of the contents of the case, $87,500, now ed thinks he struck gold. i thought wow, that say lot of money to me. it did look fair. it seemed fair to me, that is more money than i had ever gotten in my life. he accepts and a check and signs away the item, pitchard departs with the pikit artifacts, but general pickett s grand-great grandson is in for the shock of his life, he finds out what happened to his family heirloom. all lies, he lied to me. this is next. first our strange inheritance quiz question, how many generals were killed or mortally wounded at gettysburg?
famous great-great grandfather who fought in gettings gettysburg. gettysburg. i yo knew about it. i was not that interested as a little kid. some people said, didn t he lose, wasn t he a loser? that is the way a lot of history books talked about, pickett s charge. did you bury your head. i did that one time, i didn t know enough to defend him. someone that knows a lot about general pickett, civil iar historian earl earl coats, i mem on the battle feel. you are one of the icon excites of the civil war. what was pickett s
union ca cannons on the ridgeli. they have the edge. and they use it. pickett s men advance to heavy fire, union guns now down the rebels. what did the scene look like after. this seal was field was littered with dead, a scene of devastation. earl reads first hand accounts of bloodshed. on be on part of the field,ed dead lay as thick as they could. men with head shots off, and men shot in two, and in to pieces. a turning point in the war, never would the south mount an invasion of union territory. what was the high watermark? from that point on, fortunes
they went. pickett and his men failed. so did their cause. but it s a tribute to their valor that vets from the north and south would return to this spot to do their part to bind up a nation s wounds. so should ed take comfort knowing that general pickett was a soldier through and through and did as he was told? absolutely. he cost him hundreds of men, but it made him immortal. wow! that s cool. that s some interesting stuff in here. it made ed pickett better appreciate the heirlooms that remain in that old suitcase. this is a copy of general pickett s report of the battle of williamsburg, may 1862. look at the hand writing. it s a last art, i think. fabulous. what else? that s george pickett s hair. would you ever sell this? this right here, no, not