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George Edward Pickett (January 16, [1] 1825 – July 30, 1875) was a career United States Army officer who became a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for being one of the commanders at Pickett's Charge , the futile and bloody Confederate offensive on the third day of the Battle of ...
Confederate Army major general George Pickett. George Pickett (1825–1875), U.S. Army officer, Confederate Army general, participated in Battle of Gettysburg; LaSalle Corbell Pickett (1843–1931), author, wife of George Pickett; Walter Ashby Plecker (1861–1947), First Registrar for the Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics, white supremacist
Pickett's Charge was an infantry assault on 3 July 1863, during the Battle of Gettysburg. It was ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee as part of his plan to break through Union lines and achieve a decisive victory in the North. The charge was named after Major General George Pickett, one of the Confederate Army's division commanders ...
Its next major action was at the Battle of Antietam, [16] where it lost eighty-eight in killed, wounded or missing in action. [17] Following the battle, O'Kane was recommissioned as a colonel and awarded command of the 69th Pennsylvania. [18] General Joshua T. Owen, U.S. Army, former commanding officer of the 69th Pennsylvania Infantry, shown ...
George B. McClellan Jr. (1865–1940), Mayor of New York (1904–1909), son of Union Army major general George B. McClellan Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire (1893–1950), plant pathologist John C. Metzler , World War II sergeant , former superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery (1951–1972); his son John C. Metzler Jr. was also the ...
Colonel George Smith Patton (1833–1864), brigade commander during the Valley Campaigns of 1864, killed at Opequon; grandfather of General George S. Patton, army commander during World War II; Colonel Waller Tazewell Patton (1835–1863), commander of the 7th Virginia Infantry, mortally wounded during Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg
West Point Cemetery is a historic cemetery on the grounds of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.It overlooks the Hudson River, and served as a burial ground for Continental Army soldiers during the American Revolutionary War, and for early West Point residents prior to its designation as a military cemetery in 1817.
1st Corps commander Major-General John F. Reynolds was mortally wounded on July 1, the first day of the battle. Major-General Doubleday assumed command, serving one day. Major-General John Newton was installed as 1st Corps commander on July 2. Colonel Augustus van Horne Ellis Statue 124th New York Infantry Monument Houck's Ridge, Sickles Avenue