“General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arrayed for battle can take that position.” –General James Longstreet to General Robert E. Lee

The quote above, provided as a recollection many years after the War by Confederate General Longstreet, was most likely referring to Longstreet’s thoughts immediately prior to ______________.


answer choices

Pickett’s Charge on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg

Scott’s Anaconda’s final act at the Battle of Vicksburg

The firing on the Federal fortress in Charleston Harbor, Battery Wagner

The Union advance through the cornfield at Antietam

4 answers

this stuffs hard, what grade are you in?
8th
The answer is A: Picket's charge on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
I am not totally sure, so let me turn in the assessment and see if I was right.
I turned it in and A is correct