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Reported Three Time* to I.ona*trcet Tlefore He Got Order* to Move.I rrad with pleasure the article on Gettysburg In the Herald of July 4. r*»r-ncularly that part which reiatM to Fkketla chants. The account b» correct, [but I think I can add •«. little tr» It.| Pickett, Longstreet and myself were old I West Pointers and warm friend- At the dew? of our late unpleasantness I was silting In my olllco In State .street, when who should enter but my old ft lend General PlcketLWe hud not mlt;*c before since *he com-m«rt-ement of the war and had many things to talk about. In the coor.** of conversation I remarked. ‘'You had a Metty close caJI at Gettysburg. didn’t you Pickett?“h’,t l-1 ,np trii you something about my fjutrgc that h:mSfvan 5SnJW,IWw\ W,}cn lt;rd ?rs ™mrJJJS to form the column of at rackh the column, and then rod*rkht 8 i t * ** to see If everything wasto the r’LK n/ashwl th,s hwpectlon I mdelitrret nnd°r *?port !-«»«-? ^wjve orders to move.rail ofT^iniJ!7dl *,uln? Ih* «lt;*P the wmunir a stickis rMdv ioVh , -w n,T‘lvmy ealcharge, a hail I charger K«-a i£*wep. from fh'‘ general and m v rnmm^ 1 m,jmel tohi. iui,i .n*^n rolt;lp thmuirhh? £25?£i 1 reported toA third time I reported. Th'* cen^'n!pSS«?,li« ^S!n,r 0,» th, As i re-If 1 am to make mSt^ir^k??he°crW ^ t0° Sh“,i. SM,y‘n? A word, he simply bowed his head I Immediately «*t.» 0rj the choTR© and you know theWhen arkdl how he accounted for Lor-gs tree i’s course, he .?ulrl hr believed that Longstruet was opposed to the movement and delayed giving him orders, hop-Ing that Le© would change his mind and countermand hJB orders.Who can tell what would have been the resuit if Lonpstreet had given Pickett orders to charge when h'- tlrat reported to him. His not charging gave our troong ample time to consolidate.New York. July 7. 1891. VETERAN.
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Salt Lake City Herald
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sun, Aug 05, 1894
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