April 23, 2024
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An uncertain spokesman once said to George Pickett that the “Old Man” (Robert E. Lee) gave him immortality. That rather dubious “gift” came by way of having his name associated with a battlefield calamity at Gettysburg that came to be known as Pickett’s Charge.
The final piece of Postcard History’s Presidential Homes series appears here. We have saved the best until last. Mount Vernon may be the most visited of all the president’s homes and it may be that Mount Vernon postcards outnumber the others by many times.