re: #309 Dark_Falcon

Not a fair comparison. Pickett’s men, right up through his brigade commanders, did their very utmost to take the Union position they were ordered to seize. They failed not because they did wrong, but because no men could have succeed, not unless Gen. Hancock and II Corps screwed up badly (which did not happen).

The Republican Party had ways it could have won, but it did not work properly to make use of them.

And General Longstreet knew in advance that they could not win.