re: #15 jaunte

Not just that, they seem to be mostly commemorating George Pickett’s confederate charge against Meade’s Union troops.

20,00 is about the right number, though the Union troops manning the point that was attacked were reinforced. When one of his division COs said he could move a brigade to take the (then likely, but not made yet) Confederate breech in the Union line in the flank, MG Winfield Scott Hancock ordered him to get them there “pretty goddamn quick”.

The reinforcements did indeed arrive as fast as their commander had promised and were instrumental in driving the Rebels out of their breech.