Pickett's Charge
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<entity_1> was an infantry assault ordered by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's <entity_5> positions on July 3, 1863, the last day of the <entity_0> in the state of <entity_2> during the American Civil War. Although some Confederates were able to breach the low stone wall that shielded many of the <entity_5> defenders, they could not maintain their hold and were repelled with over 50% casualties, a decisive defeat that ended the three-day battle and Lee's campaign into <entity_2>. Years later, when asked why his <entity_4> at <entity_3> failed, Pickett reportedly replied, "I've always thought the Yankees had something to do with it." While Pickett's division had not been used yet at <entity_3>, A. P. Hill's health became an issue and he did not participate in selecting which of his troops were to be used for the <entity_4>. The infantry <entity_4> was preceded by what Lee hoped would be a powerful and well-concentrated cannonade of the <entity_5> center, destroying the <entity_5> artillery batteries that could defeat the assault and demoralizing the <entity_5> infantry. When <entity_5> cannoneers overshot their targets, they often hit the massed infantry waiting in the woods of Seminary Ridge or in the shallow depressions just behind Alexander's guns, causing significant casualties before the <entity_4> began. Longstreet had opposed the <entity_4> from the beginning, convinced the <entity_4> would fail (which ultimately proved true), and had his own plan that he would have preferred for a strategic movement around the <entity_5> left flank. Longstreet wanted to avoid personally ordering the <entity_4> by attempting to pass the mantle onto young Colonel Alexander, telling him that he should inform Pickett at the optimum time to begin the advance, based on his assessment that the <entity_5> artillery had been effectively silenced. Two gaps opened up in the <entity_5> line: the commander of the 71st <entity_2> ordered his men to retreat when the Confederates came too close to the Angle; south of the copse of trees, the men of the 59th New York (Hall's brigade) inexplicably bolted for the rear. The site of <entity_1> is one of the best-maintained portions of the <entity_3> Battlefield. A cyclorama painting by the French artist Paul Philippoteaux entitled The <entity_0>, also known as the <entity_3> Cyclorama, depicts <entity_1> from the vantage point of the <entity_5> defenders on Cemetery Ridge.
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