The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-18
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In the North Carolina Review, Judge
Walter Clark. Chief Justice OF North
Carolina. says: Pickett himself never
crossed the Emmet;sburS Road while
'e,ett!grew went forward and was
Nrunded near the wall. and General
Ahnistead was kiilec just beyond IL
Captain Lewis G. Young. OF Char
lesion. :. g. a the time aide de- camp
on General Pettigrews staff. says:
General Pickett did not lead his men.
etc" l also quote from the Whining
ton ~. CO. Messenger: we refer 70
the third day at Gettysburg so soon
angain because OF a letter that reached
Us on Monday postmarked charleston.
c.. Apr. ssth" 1t comes from SOL
Ter who did no. belong 10 either Pet
Crews or P!ckett'e command He
cites. and ne IS clearly g man OF
1cation and fairness"
am glad 10 see you are taking up
claim OF Pettigrew's Brigade TO
&c in the glory OF Gettysburg. Why
not 20 little further? Pettigrew led
his division. Pickett did not Petit
grew was wounded. and no member of
his STAFF came out OF the nght with
out being wounded or having his horse
shot under him. Neither Pickett nor
any member o: his stan. nor even one
of the horses was touched Why? Be
cause they We're dismounted and on
the farther side of a hill that pro
tected them from the enemy's fire
There is in this city "a letter from
distinguished. able. scholarly Nir-
ginian that states that General Pickett
was not in the charge at all. There
now The correspondent adds: Inves-
tigate the statement, and, If correct
this Will help TO make history some
what truthful. He gives excellent
authority. a gallant citizen OF Savan-
nah. Ga, who was in the battle and
of whom we have known for more than
thirty-three years. Let the whole
truth come out as to the splendid
charge on the third day, who partici-
pated in 1t and who went farthest in
and closest TO the enemy. Wilmington
Messenger.
l quote the following extract from
the North Carolina Review. August 6.
1911. viz:
Judge Clark further said that Gen
eral Pickett was given another chance
by being put in command of rhe cxpe-
dition against Newborn where he
again failed And that after the bat
tie at Five Forks. April !, 1866. Cen
eral Pickett was summarily cashiered
BY General Lee for misconduct
He says that. being invited TO deliver
some years ago. an address before the
Virginia Bar Association. he heard Gen
eral Eppa Eunton and General w n.
Payne make the above statement in the
presence OF several men. and then added
ing the retreat to Appomattox, when
General Lee and several other general
officers were watering their horses
they saw Pickett on foot cross the
road few yards of. whereupon Cen
eral- Lee contemptuously said: Hasn't
that fellow left here yet?' Judge
Clark said that he would not have re-
peated the matter. though thus pub
licly related, General Pickett is dead.
but that recently Colonel John S Mosby.
in, NM ~, arf; al
zine for April. 1a1D. has narrated ex-
actly the same incident The memory
of the brave North Carolinians who
fell at Gettysburg ought no longer to
be called In question to save the MEM
DRY of General Pickett. North Caro-
linians have never questioned the gall
lantry of the Virginas in that charge
They have only claimed the same merit
for their own soldiers"
I. r. Pennepacker, in his history OF
General Meade, published in 1901 in
the Great Commander Series" says:
General Pickett in person did not cross
the Emmettsburg Road. OF his three
brigade commanders. Garnett and Arm
istead We're killed and within twenty
PAGES of the wall Kemper was wounded
and captured Pettigrew and TrimbIe
and three of their brigade commanders
Frye. Lawrence and Marshall We're
wounded" Colonel Marshall of the
Fifty second North Carolina troops
commanding Pettigrew's Brigade, was
killed on the field.
Moores Civil War" contains de-
scription of this battle by G. J Cross
who, in describing Lonestreet's assault
says: I'm the bloody rack hundreds of
their best officers went down. 1t was
the turning point of the grand drama.
and with the sun. on the Sd day of July,
went down the sun of the Confederacy
forever. Although known as Picketts
charge, General Graham, whom I met
yesterday, informs me that General
Pickett himself was not in it, He de-
scrihes him as n coarse. brutal fellow
and says he treated him with the great
est inhumapity after the battle. whilst
wounded and prisoner in his hands"
General Lees letter to General Pick
EFT is a rebuke in advising him ito
destroy both copies and the original
report and substitute one confined to
casualties merely" on account Of re-
Elections etc. stating that I'VE had the
enemy to fight, etc." and General Lee
evidently learned more of General pick
EFT as the war advanced, judging from
Colonel Mosby's article in Munsey's