Pickett’s division of the army of Northern Virginia is rarely heard of
either before or after Gettysburg. No body of troops during the last
war made as much reputation on so little fighting. Newspaper men did
the work by printer’s ink and the casualties were small.
Fourteen hundred and ninety-nine were captured at Gettysburg. More
than this number “absquated” when Petersburg fell and there was a
probability of leaving Virginia. Pickett’s division made a poor show at
the surrender at Appomattox.--Abbeville, (S. C.) Medium.
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