May 18, 2026
Tag: General 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 16, 2022 3 Comments
By age 17, John Lewis Childs had a well-planned and nearly perfected career path doing business as no one had done before. He sold seeds through a catalog. It made him one of America’s richest men. The post office in his small Long Island community grew so fast due to the volume of mail he received, they compared it to Boston and Baltimore.