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| General George G. Meade and General Robert E. Lee Opponents at Gettysburg |
Some have called it the "High Tide of the Confederacy", most just call it "Pickett's Charge".
To me one small phrase describes that climactic event at the Battle of Gettysburg:
unbelievable bravery.
To the men who fought there, to the men who died there.
To me one small phrase describes that climactic event at the Battle of Gettysburg:
unbelievable bravery.
To the men who fought there, to the men who died there.
On both sides.
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| General Pickett |
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50 Years After the Battle, On the Same Field
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Remember them, honor them.
I watched a good piece on Gettysburg last evening before I fell asleep. It's good that our culture still remembers and honors those who fell all these many years ago.
ReplyDeleteBravery, indeed.
Hopefully we'll continue to remember, even through these lean years.
DeleteWar is always awful, but close hand to hand combat is incomprehensible to me.
ReplyDeleteThe War between the States was brutal beyond imagination.
Me too Joe. I don't know how they did it.
DeleteRemember yes, and hope to God we never go down that path again... And 9 of those veterans died during that 50 year reunion, overcome by the heat. But I'm thinking they were happy to expire there with their friends.
ReplyDeleteAmen.
DeleteI think that would have been somehow appropriate. Going back to the field of battle, remembering when you were young. I would prefer that to wasting away, bed-ridden.
That was a beautiful thing
ReplyDeleteThanks brother.
DeleteUp Men! Up, and to your posts! Let no man today forget that he is from Old Virginia!
ReplyDeleteThanks for reminding me of those lines.
DeleteWhen I read about the hand-to-hand fighting of this war, I always wonder if I would have had the sand those guys did......The courage to charge into withering fire?
ReplyDeleteThat is a good question. I think most men wonder that.
DeleteI know I wonder if I have that kind of courage.