Pickett's Charge

George Stewart's Pickett's Charge looks closely at one of the most pivotal episodes of the Battle of Gettysburg. It centers on the Confederate infantry assault against the Union center on the battle's third day, July 3, 1863, an attack that has come to stand for the whole struggle at Gettysburg.

Stewart approaches the subject as a close study of a single event rather than a general account of the campaign. The author was an American writer who taught English at the University of California, Berkeley, and who also wrote novels and other nonfiction.