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Hey everyone, thanks for tuning in to episode number 378 of our Civil War podcast. I'm Rich.

Tracy won't actually be with us for this show. She is off visiting family and left me to hold down the fort and to get this episode out to you guys.

So that's what I will do. And with this show, you and I will take a look at the immediate aftermath of Pickett's Charge.

Then we'll get the Confederates on their way as they skiddle a day after the charge and start their retreat back to Virginia.

Alright, sound good? Okay, let's get started.

Pickett's Charge took less than one hour from the time Pickett's pedigrues and Trimble's troops stepped off from Seminary Ridge until their shattered ranks came limping back.

Their losses were simply staggering. Numbers vary but of the nearly 13,000 men who probably made the charge at least 5,300 became casualties, either dead, wounded, captured or missing.

Some sources placed the number closer to 6,000.

George Pickett lost nearly half his division in the attack, including all three of his brigade commanders, with Garnet killed, Armistead mortally wounded, and Kemper severely wounded.

Of the 15 regimental commanders in the division, eight were either killed or mortally wounded, while five others sustained non-fatal wounds.

Some units were almost entirely wiped out. Company H of the 56th Virginia began the attack with 37 men, by the time it was over, only one remained.

Losses and pedigrues' division exceeded 40 percent, with pedigrues' old brigade, under Marshall, suffering the highest losses, followed closely by archers' brigade, under Fry, and then losses were also severe among Joe Davis' misoccipients and North Carolinians.

Johnston pedigrue had been wounded in the attack, as had Isaac Trimble, bringing up the supporting brigades under low-rants and lane.

Birkett Frye was wounded and captured, and Colonel James Marshall was dead.

The 11th Mississippi of Davis' brigade suffered an incredible 90 percent loss, including every single member of Company A, the University Grays.

The 26th North Carolina, which had suffered 500 casualties on July 1, lost another 130 on July 3, and after the charge, could muster scarcely 70 men in its ranks.

28 battle flags, from more than half the units that made the attack, were captured by victorious federal troops on Cemetery Ridge.

A Virginia Lieutenant later summarized the attack by saying, we gained nothing but glory, and lost our bravest men.

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