Gettysburg: Pickett's Charge
13,000 Confederates marched into Union fire. Relive Pickett's Charge, the climax of Gettysburg.
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Gettysburg: Pickett's Charge
Clip: Episode 3 | 8m 21sVideo has Closed Captions
13,000 Confederates marched into Union fire. Relive Pickett's Charge, the climax of Gettysburg.
July 3, 1863. After a thunderous artillery barrage, 13,000 Confederates march a mile and a half across open fields toward the Union line on Cemetery Ridge. Relive Pickett's Charge through the words of those who witnessed it, from the stone wall at The Angle to Lee's own admission: "All this has been my fault." Witness the turning point of Gettysburg in Ken Burns's The Civil War.
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Production made possible by grants from General Motors Corporation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation
Gettysburg: Pickett's Charge
Clip: Episode 3 | 8m 21sVideo has Closed Captions
July 3, 1863. After a thunderous artillery barrage, 13,000 Confederates march a mile and a half across open fields toward the Union line on Cemetery Ridge. Relive Pickett's Charge through the words of those who witnessed it, from the stone wall at The Angle to Lee's own admission: "All this has been my fault." Witness the turning point of Gettysburg in Ken Burns's The Civil War.
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