Picketts charge is famous for futility, while in the original timeline (pace Bring the Jubilee) Picketts Charge is the march of honor that brought US to defeat in the War of Southron Independence, and in my own contrafactual Pig War (see link), Picketts Stand stands beside Bunker Hill! Pickett, ironically, was actually appointed to West Point by Illinois Congressman John T. Stuart, a friend of Picketts uncle and a law partner of Abraham Lincoln, who also endorsed Picketts appointment, and gave Pickett bad fatherly advice. Pickett was popular as a cadet at West Point. He was mischievous and a player of pranks, ... a man of ability, but belonging to a cadet set that appeared to have no ambition for class standing and wanted to do only enough study to secure their graduation. At a time when often a third of the class washed out before graduation, Pickett persisted, working off his demerits and doing enough in his studies to graduate, ranking last out of the 59 surviving students in the Class of 1846. It is a position held with some backhanded distinction, referred to today as the goat, both for its stubbornness and tenacity. Two of the most famous goats have been Pickett and George Armstrong Custer. Pickett was actually in command during the confrontation of the Pig War, where Picketts Stand, in this worldline, PREVENTED a war, but is utterly forgotten, mainly because it is so embarrassing and comic opera! https://facebook/groups/546365202044332/permalink/853194101361439/
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:19:04 +0000
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