Welcome everyone to the Battle of Gettysburg Podcast. I am your co-host, licensed

battlefield guide Eric Lindblade, and tonight we are coming to you from the Gettysburg

Heritage Center on Steinware Avenue here in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

As always, I am joined by my co-host, licensed battlefield guide, Jim Hessler.

And Jim, what's tonight's topic?

Well, Eric, tonight we're going to take a more personal approach to things.

Some listeners like to just focus on specific battle actions, other people are into terrain,

or a core or a specific command, but you know I always say that history is about the people.

Biographies, people interacting with people.

And what we're going to do tonight is what Eric and I both think should be kind of a fun little episode.

We're going to examine the relationship between two icons of the Confederacy and the Army of

Northern Virginia.

We're talking about Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and George Pickett.

Now although they served in the same Army for much of the war, their fates really intersected

and their legends became defined on the afternoon of July 3rd at Gettysburg.

In fact, you could argue that July 3rd is perhaps Lee's greatest failure and ironically Pickett's most memorable hour.

But rumors of a feud between these two legends have persisted for years,

going so far as General Pickett allegedly, claiming that that old man had my division massacred at Gettysburg.

Some historians have even gone so far as determinate Lee versus Pickett.

I don't know if I'd go that far,

but those are the kinds of things

we're gonna talk about today.

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