This Lee Monument Must Stay

Gettysburg July 3. 1863

Today was the day General Lee decided to use “Longstreet’s Advance” to win the battle being fought on Northern soil. Victory could lead his army into Philadelphia and then New York and a win for the Confederate army.

You never heard of “Longstreet’s Advance” — that’s because it was renamed Pickett’s Charge, a failed charge for which Lee took responsibility…