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Message: [QUOTE="pinotbear, post: 2264660, member: 258"] 1. Third day at Gettysburg. Having missed an opportunity at the end of the first day to grab the northern end of the high ground just south of town, and having, very narrowly, failed in the attempt to grab the southernmost high ground at the Round Tops during the second day, Lee opts to try a frontal assault to the middle of the Union Line, which continues to occupy the high ground on the east side of the battlefield. His troops are largely tired, supplies are depleted, but Lee wants to make one more attempt to drive the Union Army off the battlefield, breaking their spirit, and opening up the way to advance on eastern PA, MD, and Washington, DC. George Pickett's division is still fresh, so, despite Longstreet's cautions, Lee sends his troops across roughly 1.5 miles of open field, exposed to Union artillery. Although the South has artillery too, the North has more of it, and the steady march of Pickett's 10,000 or so troops just comes closer to the Union guns with each stride. Despite the incredible cost in lives and wounds, the bravery of Pickett's division is such that they actually reach the Union line, and nearly breach it, but they do not have the ability to create the significant break in the Union line that Lee was hoping for. Pickett's troops fall back, Lee's last chance for victory at Gettysburg broken. That night, bereft of troops, supplies, and morale, the Confederate army retreats back towards Virginia. The Union army also exhausted, newly-appointed General Meade does not pursue the retreating Rebs aggressively. 9. Seen a thing or two, Farmer's Insurance. 13. A river in Egypt. [/QUOTE]

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