Barksdale's Charge: The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863
by Phillip Thomas Tucker
American Civil War history
On the third day of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee launched a magnificent attack. It was unsurpassed, and it also marked the centerpiece of the war. Pickett's Charge was crushed by the Union defenders that day, having never stood a chance.
