Letters of General George E. Pickett of the C.S.A.

Pickett's Charge at Leadership Many reasons have been offered for the Confederacy's defeat in the Civil War. Of these many hypotheses none have ever been proven to be the single cause. Perhaps there is no one single cause, maybe the Confederacy fell due to an accumulation of reasons. Resourcefulness was constantly lacking, morale was at staggering lows, the home front was a staple in the mind of every grey uniform, and not to mention they …

…supply and battered home front. The most readily available tool was its leaders who attempted an impossible feat on the grass at Gettysburg. A leader was successful only if they knew how to lead, and "George E. Pickett, whether fighting under the stars and stripes at Chapultapec, or under the stars and bars at Gettysburg, duty was his polar star, and with him duty was above consequences, and at crisis, he would throw them overboard."