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Before July 3, 1863, George Pickett was most widely known among his comrades for concluding last in his course at West Point, being a jocular but courageous soldier, and his carefully perfumed locks. As part of West Point's most famous Category of 1846, Pickett was classmates with men like Stonewall Jackson and George McClellan, and despite his poor course standing he distinguished himself fresh out of school through the Mexican-American War. Pickett's reputation for bravery extended into the early on years of the Civil Warfare, to the magnitude that former West Point classmate George McClellan wrote, "Perhaps there is absolutely no uncertainty that he was the best infantry soldier developed on either aspect through the Civil Warfare." A indigenous Virginian, the impeccably styled Pickett represented all of the antebellum South's most appreciated traits, and as such he was a "beau-ideal" Confederate soldier. After showing himself an able brigadier through the Peninsula Campaign, during which he was wounded and compelled to extract, Pickett was given command of any section in Longstreet's corps of the Confederate Military of North Virginia, placing him constantly in place for a rendez-vous with destiny. Today Pickett is most beneficial appreciated for the fee that has used his name and is now remembered as the utmost famous assault of the Civil Warfare. Having didn't dislodge the Union Military of the Potomac on either flank through the first two times at Gettysburg, Lee ordered a fee of almost 15,000 at the guts of the lines.
