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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To write your name in the world’s largest book of its kind was enough to encourage thousands of early 20th century tourists to make their way to Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. Civil War tourism was a new way for Americans to learn history.

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