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[Deadmeat1471]

From what I can see Picketts division was entirely from Virginia. Assuming he was in the infantry(considering he died its most likely) he must have been in either:

Armisteads brigade
Kempers
Garnetts

Each have 5 regiments each so approximately 15 regiments he could likely be a part of XD

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Garnett's Brigade


   BG Richard B. Garnett (k)
   Maj Charles S. Peyton
   

    8th Virginia: Col Eppa Hunton (w),Ltc Norborne Berkeley (w&c), Maj Edmund Berkeley (w)
    18th Virginia: Ltc Henry A. Carrington (w&c)
    19th Virginia: Col Henry Gantt (w), Ltc John T. Ellis (mw), Maj Charles S. Peyton
    28th Virginia: Col Robert C. Allen (k), Ltc William Watts, Maj Nathaniel C. Wilson (mw)
    56th Virginia: Col William D. Stuart (mw), Ltc P. P. Slaughter

Kemper's Brigade


   BG James L. Kemper (w&c)
   Col Joseph Mayo, Jr
   

    1st Virginia: Col Lewis B. Williams, Jr (mw), Ltc F. G. Skinner, Maj Francis H. Langley (w)
    3rd Virginia: Col Joseph Mayo Jr, Ltc Alexander D. Callcote (k), Maj William H. Pryor
    7th Virginia: Col Waller T. Patton (mw&c), Ltc Charles C. Flowerree
    11th Virginia: Maj Kirkwood Otey (w), Cpt James R. Hutter (w&c), Cpt John Holmes Smith (w), Cpt Albert W. Douthat
    24th Virginia: Col William R. Terry (w), Maj Joseph A. Hambrick (w), Cpt William N. Bentley

Armistead's Brigade


   BG Lewis A. Armistead (mw)
   Ltc William White (w)
   Maj Joseph R. Cabell
   Col William R. Aylett [3]
   

    9th Virginia: Maj John C. Owens (mw), Cpt James J. Phillips
    14th Virginia:Col James G. Hodges (k), Ltc William White (w), Maj Robert H. Poore (mw)
    38th Virginia: Col Edward C. Edmonds (k), Ltc Powhatan B. Whittle (mw), Maj Joseph R. Cabell
    53rd Virginia: Col William R. Aylett (w), Ltc Rawley W. Martin (w&c), Maj John C. Timberlake (c), Cpt Henry Edmunds
    57th Virginia: Col John B. Magruder (mw&c), Ltc Benjamin H. Wade (mw), Maj Clement R. Fontaine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Confederate_order_of_battle#First_Corps

What was his name? (can PM if you want )

[RedKing]

Pickett's own men were Virginians, but there was one brigade of Georgians in support and one brigade of five NC regiments under Brig. Gen Scales, Trimble's Division, that was supposed to follow Pickett's men into the breach (hopefully) caused by the charge. They got about halfway across the field before being forced back.

The North Carolina units were in the other two corps and did a lot of the early fighting (the 26th NC Infantry suffered the heaviest single-battle losses of any regiment in the war: 74.7% casualty rate in the first day, 81.8% casualty rate by the end of the battle.)

Interestingly enough, my wife's ancestors were up on Cemetary Ridge guarding the artillery pieces that were blasting Pickett's Charge to bits.

[Cthulhu]

That's kind of sobering.  You always hear about how it was brother against brother, but you don't really think about how, even today, lots of us probably have friends whose ancestors killed each other.

[Deadmeat1471]

That's kind of sobering.  You always hear about how it was brother against brother, but you don't really think about how, even today, lots of us probably have friends whose ancestors killed each other.

Yeah there's alot of cases of this in that war, such as the Union Irish Brigade at Fredericksberg being shot down by Irish in the Confederate army.
Alot of the generals who fought against each other also fought together in the Mexican war, it really does show the worst of all Civil Wars in this civil war.

Also I think this demonstrates why they didn't consider each other traitors and the memory of both sides has been remembered throughout American history; they knew each other, they knew they were reasonable and honorable men, they knew they were countrymen or at least men of a fellow heritage and history.
To consider a Confederate a traitor to the USA would be like saying your brother is no longer part of your family because you had an argument.

I think its easy to say bad things about a foreign people, and to demonise them and hate them. It's hard if not impossible to hate your best friend, or your family member, or someone from a nation you respect and share a common history with and understand.

I think few Civil Wars were so bloody and so costly and still after the war has ended, the other side were accepted as brothers again. It's as if the war was a gamble to decide the issue of slavery, and the gamble though being lost(or won); all left the table as gentlemen and friends.

*I know this isnt the whole truth, and there was alot of animosity around, but there was alot of forgiveness too and I think that the forgiving outweighed the lingering hatred. Americans could never hate other Americans for long. Especially when the main goal of the war was to reunite them into the country!

Except John Wilks Booth of course  sore loser.

[Deadmeat1471]

Pickett's own men were Virginians, but there was one brigade of Georgians in support and one brigade of five NC regiments under Brig. Gen Scales, Trimble's Division, that was supposed to follow Pickett's men into the breach (hopefully) caused by the charge. They got about halfway across the field before being forced back.

The North Carolina units were in the other two corps and did a lot of the early fighting (the 26th NC Infantry suffered the heaviest single-battle losses of any regiment in the war: 74.7% casualty rate in the first day, 81.8% casualty rate by the end of the battle.)

Interestingly enough, my wife's ancestors were up on Cemetary Ridge guarding the artillery pieces that were blasting Pickett's Charge to bits.

Thanks for this, interesting info!

[Hubris Incalculable]

The most warlike thing any of my ancestors did was my great grandfather: Being from a German-speaking community in what's now the Ukraine, he and his family evacuated with the retreating German army during WWII, and was drafted into the German army. Being a Mennonite and a pacifist, the last thin he wanted was to leave his family to become a killer, forced or not. So, when he got his first pay, which most other new soldiers spent on drinks and women, he bribed the garrison's physician to write that he was unfit for duty.

[Grakelin]

All of my grandparents were sympathizers or Hitler Youths.

[Necro910]

All of my grandparents were sympathizers or Hitler Youths.

My German grandfather on my father's side moved from the city to an abusive family on a potato farm. Butchering cats and growing tubers... sounds familiar?

My German grandfather on my mother's side was too young for Hitler youth and all that, so he generally screwed around and helped East Berliners get over the wall after the war. Apparently he killed some high-ranking Soviet officer during a run, so he had to move or get hunted down the rest of his life. He moved.

My great grandfather (father of the East Berliner freer) was a high-ranking Nazi tank commander. He was close friends with Rommel, actually. I need to ask my family the name of the Nazi commander and the Soviet officer so I can look them up.

[Cthulhu]

I think few Civil Wars were so bloody and so costly and still after the war has ended, the other side were accepted as brothers again. It's as if the war was a gamble to decide the issue of slavery, and the gamble though being lost(or won); all left the table as gentlemen and friends.

It wasn't about slavery, it was about whether or not the south had the constitutional right to secede.

[RedKing]

If we're expanding it beyond the ACW, I have an interesting bit: my 7x Great-grandfather was born in coastal North Carolina, his family having been displaced after participating in the failed 1715 Jacobite rebellion. He then returned to Scotland (his son, my 6x GGF, was born in Dumfriesshire) and fought in the 1745 Jacobite rebellion. When that failed, he took his family back to coastal North Carolina and eventually became the Justice of the Peace, and thus an official of the Crown.

As they say, if you can't beat 'em....
Of course, his son wound up fighting the Crown in the Revolution. Old habits are hard to break. 

[Deadmeat1471]

I think few Civil Wars were so bloody and so costly and still after the war has ended, the other side were accepted as brothers again. It's as if the war was a gamble to decide the issue of slavery, and the gamble though being lost(or won); all left the table as gentlemen and friends.

It wasn't about slavery, it was about whether or not the south had the constitutional right to secede.

Saying that is as shallow and narrow minded as it is saying it was purely about slavery. It was far more complicated than just being about slavery or states rights.

But do not debate this here, I know how it always ends.

[RedKing]

I'd like to think the war was over clam chowder: cream base (Boston) or tomato base (Maryland/Chesapeake Bay).
Of course, as someone who thinks clams are just straight-up nasty I guess I'd have been a neutral observer.

[SirAaronIII]

My grandfather was fighting against the Communists, I believe. My dad escaped when they won.

Booooring.