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General Pickett Taking the Order to Charge From General Longstreet, Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 antique map America The Barbers Implement Patent ofGeneral Pickett Taking the Order to Charge From General Longstreet, Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 the moment rendered in ink before the field turned to slaughter, Longstreet's reluctant nod passing to Pickett as fifteen thousand men prepared to walk into the guns across that long Pennsylvania wheat. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical