Talk:Pickett's Charge

message: The article says: "Pickett's three brigade commanders and all thirteen of his regimental commanders were casualties.". Later in the same section it says "Of the 15 regimental commanders in Pickett's division, the Virginia Military Institute produced eleven and all eleven were casualties—six killed, five wounded. Trimble and Pettigrew were the most senior casualties of the day; Trimble lost a leg, and Pettigrew received a minor wound to the hand (only to die from a bullet to the abdomen suffered in a minor skirmish during the retreat to Virginia)."
So is it 13 or 15 regimental commanders?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.253.32.171 (talk) 10:58, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: 15. I have fixed this and reworked that paragraph. Thank you for catching. Hal Jespersen (talk) 18:06, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of regimental commanders in Picketts division 

message: Two things for consideration: First, the article states that it is "less frequently" called Longstreet's Assault.  All of the brigade marker plaques at Gettysburg that summarize the unit's actions during the battle refer to it by this name. Second, I heard from a licensed tour guide that part of the reason it got the name Pickett's Charge is because Pickett went back to Virginia and talked himself up, saying "Look what I did" or "Look what we, the Virginians, did."  Virginia newspapers got the story first and ran with it.  This is partially addressed in the Aftermath section, but Pickett's "bragging" is not mentioned.  I can't find a valid source for this though.
Merv243 (talk) 02:26, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The WP:COMMONNAME is still overwhelmingly "Pickett's Charge". Your former point falls under WP:OFFICIAL and the latter, if true, under WP:POVTITLE to some extent. –CWenger (^ • @) 03:30, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Name of the Charge 

message: I have reverted or rewritten a few of the recent edits. The first deletion was the text "Others dispute these claims and assert that Pickett was a brave and inspirational leader to his men in battle, such as James Longstreet, who called him a "great leader." footnoted as "Longstreet, James. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1896." Without a page number reference it is difficult to verify this, but I could not find a statement by Longstreet in the context of Pickett's charge that made such an assertion.
Second was a paragraph of opinion without a citation from secondary sources: "Perhaps the most important question that arises from the disaster that was Pickett's Charge is, "Why did the Confederates under Pickett lose?" Although there will never be a definitive answer to this question, it is possible to determine some of the factors that could have contributed to the defeat. Scholars today seem to agree on three main reasons for the Confederate loss. One, it is proposed that Pickett and the other Confederate leaders were too confident going into the battle of Gettysburg after their victory at Chancellorsville, and therefore they underestimated the Union army and were caught off guard in battle. Secondly, it has been argued that Pickett did not have enought reinforcements, and that his troops were not equipped to handle the situation, so they were overwhelmed and lost. The most popular explanation for the loss seems to be that it was a bad call to order the charge by Robert E. Lee in the first place, so by ordering it, he set the Confederates up to lose from the start."
Other changes were to accommodate the flow of the information already in the article. I removed one incomplete footnote as being unnecessary beyond the existing citations.
Hal Jespersen (talk) 20:11, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  edits Dec 2012 

message: In this article, Cushing is noted as being severely wounded early on, then later described as being struck by 3 bullets. 
Cushing's page states he was struck by two shell fragments, then a bullet to the mouth. Was he struck by shell fragments, then by 3 bullets, or wounded three times, the last being a bullet to the mouth?
: The "severely wounded" adjectival phrase was out of place and redundant, so I removed it. Hal Jespersen (talk) 15:07, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  # of Wounds of Cushing? 

message: I noticed my edit introducing Lee's battle plan was undone, but I'm confused by the reason, which said "the lead section is supposed to be a summary of the main article, not a place to introduce opinions".
The citation described in detail how Lee had planned to attack the flanks to shift forces from the center, then attack a weakened center. 
--SuperAnth (talk) 18:30, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lee's Battle Plan 

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message: The map as drawn depicts Hall's brigade (II-2-3) in the Angle and Webb's Brigade (II-2-2) in the second line.  In fact, II-2-2 occupied the angle and some points on either side of it, while II-2-3 stood in line on its left. This point hardly seems trivial, since it affects the understanding of the fighting at the "High Water Mark."
See, e.g. Union II-2 reports in OR 1-XXVII Vol. 1.
Mark Morss (talk) 22:37, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Webb's Brigade out of place on map. 

message: I want to put a section , with the same title or such. Basically everyone has second guess whether if different events leading up Pickett's charge whether it would have succeeded in the end. Even in 1998 most believe it would have failed no matter what happened, there just wasn't enough of the south at the battle to win. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1998/06/28/the-legend-of-picketts-charge/8b9b63a7-5585-401e-93df-7164aa8fc1f7/
Latest results simulation results show no matter what Pickett's charge would either failed initial, or Pickett's men wouldn't have enough forces left to hold the ground they captured. http://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/picketts-charge-what-modern-mathematics-teaches-us-about-civil-war-battle/wcm/0291f19c-3928-45a8-859e-1671533eb99f  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bongey (talk • contribs) 03:22, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern Military Analysis 

message: This sentence reads "Hancock" where it seems it should read "Kemper"
"and delivered withering fire into the rear of Kemper's brigade. At about this time, Hancock, who had been prominent in displaying himself on horseback to his men during the Confederate artillery bombardment, was wounded by a bullet"
73.220.247.81 (talk) 17:38, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Both Kemper and Hancock were similarly wounded at the battle.  Kemper's wounding could use some mention, though.  --A D Monroe III(talk)  01:18, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  ?correction due? 

message: In several instances, the article cites a book by Pfanz, but a book by (I presume Harry) Pfanz is not listed in the reference list. Could someone in the know please add it to the article bibliography? Thanks! SEM (talk) 11:09, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Found it, correct reference was Pfanz, Harry W. The Battle of Gettysburg. Conshohocken: Eastern National Park and Monument Association, 1994.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by SEM (talk • contribs) 20:41, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pfanz 

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