Fellow Soldiers Pay Tribute to Gen. George Pickett After His 1875 Death Following his death at age 50 in 1875 due to a liver abscess, the former soldiers who served with Gen. George Pickett during the late war and other former Confederates rallied to remember him as the epitome of the honor and glory of Virginia, and for "the supreme hour when he marched into the jaws of death on the iron-clad heights of Gettysburg." Here's a sampling of the testimonials. "Life on the Civil War Research Trail" i

"Pickett’s Men Fell Like Grain Before the Sweep of the Scythe" at Gettysburg George Pickett did not leave behind his recollections of the Gettysburg charge that bears his name, a number of others did. The most controversial account, "Pickett and His Men," by the general's widow, LaSalle "Sallie" Corbell Pickett, has been dismissed in recent years as a work of fiction and accuses her of plagiarism. Despite the flaws, it does reflect how Sallie wanted her husband to be remembered. Here's the story