| Longstreet Longstreet is wounded severely in 1864, but returns to remain
Lee's most dependable soldier. He dies in 1904 at the age of eighty-three.
Buford
After the first day, Buford's shattered division was taken out
of front-line and deployed to guard the supply trains for the duration of the battle. That
autumn Buford is weakened by wounds and in December dies of pneumonia.
J.E.B. Stuart
Stuart is morally wounded at the battle of Yellow Tavern and
dies on May 12, 1864 in Richmond.
Harrison
Harrison survives the charge and the battle. After the war, he
returns to the stage to play Shakespeare.
Pickett
Pickets Division is virtually destroyed. He survives the war to
great glory, but brood's on the loss until his dying day.
Hancock
Hancock survives the wound at Gettysburg. In 1880 he runs for
the Presidency on the Democratic ticket, loses to Garfield and retires from public life.
Armistead
Union soldiers carry Armistead to a field hospital where he dies
two days later. The package given to Longstreet for Myra Hancock contained his personal
Bible.
Chamberlain
After Gettysburg, Chamberlain is wounded six times and rises to
the rank of Major General. For his day at Little Round Top, he receives the Congressional
Medal of Honor. He is elected governor of Maine for four terms and later serves as
president of Bowdoin College. He dies in 1914 at the age of eighty-three.
Lee
Lee serves until the end the war, almost two years later. He
dies in 1870, perhaps the most beloved General in American history.
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