George E. Pickett

The Civil War: The Cult of the Lost Cause and the Invention of General Pickett

The Civil War: The Cult of the Lost Cause and the Invention of General Pickett

January 26, 2021

We are still living with the bitter consequences of his wife’s revisionist narrative today. George Pickett –...

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