Pickett’s Charge

Robert E. Lee and General George Pickett – of Pickett’s Charge – had a testy relationship. Lee thought poorly of Pickett because Pickett had been at a shad bake while his men were being slaughtered by General Sheridan at the Battle of Five Forks. Pickett met with Lee shortly before Lee’s death in 1870 along with General John S. Mosby. The meeting was frosty. After the meeting, Pickett snapped to Mosby, “That old man had my men massacred at Gettysburg,” to which Mosby replied, “Well, he made you immortal.” 

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Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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