Leader of the Charge: A Biography of General George E. Pickett, C.S.A - Edward G. Longacre - Hardcover

The leader of the most famous charge in American history, George E. Pickett, was destined for immortality, but the man behind the famous name has remained a mystery. This, the first full-length scholarly biography of the general, reveals the complex personality and explores the contradictory behavior of one of Robert E. Lee's most enigmatic subordinates. What emerges is a portrait of a gallant leader who risked his life on many fields but refused to accompany his troops into the jaws of death at Gettysburg; an incisive, quick-witted tactician who graduated at the foot of his West Point Class; and a chivalrous Virginian who in 1865 barely escaped trial as a war criminal.Longacre, Edward G. is the author of 'Leader of the Charge: A Biography of General George E. Pickett, C.S.A - Edward G. Longacre - Hardcover' with ISBN 9781572490062 and ISBN 1572490063.