Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg, George Pickett was a West ... himself in battle during the Mexican-American War and on the frontier, along the Texas border ...

Pickett's Charge was a suicidal Confederate attack during the Civil War's infamous Battle of Gettysburg, that arguably was the turning point that led to the Union's victory.

This episode opens with a dramatic account of the turning point of war: the Battle of Gettysburg ... culminating in George Pickett's legendary charge. This extended episode then chronicles ...