Gettysburg: "They walked through blood"

Perhaps no event of the American Civil War has been romanticized and written about more than the last great charge by General Longstreet’s men on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg.  This Museum of the Confederacy exhibit tells the story of the dramatic event, historically referred to as “Pickett’s Charge,”  primarily through the display of the battle flags carried by the units of Major General George Pickett’s Virginia Division. 

Thirteen of the fifteen battle flags carried by regiments in Pickett’s division were captured in the charge.  Eight of those captured flags will be displayed in this exhibit. The exhibit will also feature personal artifacts of soldiers who took part in the charge and remembrances of the battle.

This exhibit is now open and runs through September of 2014.

Learn more about the exhibit on this special page.