Pickett's Charge in History and Memory (Carol Reardon - GC) Section- Confederate Officers living conditions

living conditions

or of Irish comrades

Frank and his comrades cleared mines

The story of Josiah

and the Phantom Battalion at Gettysburg

Pickett's Charge in History and Memory (Carol Reardon - GC) Section- Confederate Officers living conditionsby Carol Reardon 1998 Forrest C. Pogue Prize, Eisenhower Center for American Studies 1998 Philip S. Klein Prize, Pennsylvania Historical Association If, as many have argued, the Civil War is the most crucial moment in our national life and Gettysburg its turning point, then the climax of the climax, the central moment of our history, must be Pickett's Charge. But as Carol Reardon notes, the Civil War saw many other daring assaults and stout defenses.