March 21, 2025
Tag: Fort Pickett
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Fort Pickett
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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.
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February 8, 2021 9 Comments
Mark Twain once said, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it ….” With that in mind, we who travel have reasons which complement that essential, to wit: education and curiosity. This is a travel story for me and Saint Louis.