http://bgrahamonline.com/307b.html "General Lee choose to attack straight up the center of the battlefield. In the afternoon Lee's artillery (in an attempt to soften the the Union Army defenses) opened a two hour bombardment of Federal lines on Cemetery Ridge and Cemetery Hill. Lee then ordered the famous "Pickets Charge"
Pickett attacked the center of Union line deployed on Cemetery Ridge. The assigned point of breakthrough (schwerpunkt) was "The Angle", located at a point countersigned by a little group of trees, which were well visible from the starting point of the charge.
seminary ridge and the areas below cemetary ridge and little round top
Union troops repulsed them.
George Pickett
Prevented confederates from pushin the federals off cemetery ridge
Union forces on Cemetery Ridge repulsed Pickett's Charge.
Pickett attacked the center of Union line deployed on Cemetery Ridge. The assigned point of breakthrough (schwerpunkt) was "The Angle", located at a point countersigned by a little group of trees, which were well visible from the starting point of the charge.
George E. Meade
seminary ridge and the areas below cemetary ridge and little round top
Union troops repulsed them.
The goal of Confederate attacking troops (the divisions of Generals George Pickett, James Pettigrew and Isaac Trimble ) was that to break through the center of the Union line on the Cemetery Ridge.
The goal of Confederate attacking troops (the divisions of Generals George Pickett, James Pettigrew and Isaac Trimble ) was that to break through the center of the Union line on the Cemetery Ridge.
The goal of Confederate attacking troops (the divisions of Generals George Pickett, James Pettigrew and Isaac Trimble ) was that to break through the center of the Union line on the Cemetery Ridge.
He was ordered by Lee to break through the Union Line on the Cemetery Ridge. The center of gravity of the attack was a Sector located approximately in the centre of the enemy line, called "The Angle".
No. Not quite.
George Pickett
Pickett's orders were to break the union defensive line.