[PDF.40vi] General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend

General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend

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 | #2492422 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  1998-12-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.06 x6.08 x9.64l, | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||0 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| disappointing and not recommended|By Carole D. Bryant|I was VERY DISAPPOINTED with the book! It was NOT what I thought it should be. Where research could have ascertained the true age of Mrs. Pickett (censuses, death certificate), for example, the author prefers to speculate, a trait unbefitting a true historian. Imagine accusing a highly acclaimed (by contemporaries) eye-witne|From Library Journal|George Pickett will forever be associated with the charge at Gettysburg that bears his name. Yet "Pickett's Charge" is a misleading label, and so is much of what we know about Pickett himself. Gordon (history, Univ. of Akron) explores both t

The man who gave his name to the greatest failed frontal attack in American military history, George E. Pickett is among the most famous Confederate generals of the Civil War. But even today he remains imperfectly understood, a figure shrouded in Lost Cause mythology. In this carefully researched biography, Lesley Gordon moves beyond earlier studies of Pickett. By investigating the central role played by his wife LaSalle in controlling his historical image, Gordon illumi...

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