Professor Lesley Gordon, the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History, spoke at Pamplin Historical Park, in Petersburg, Virginia, several months ago. She discussed Confederate General George Pickett and his third wife, LaSalle Corbell Pickett, whose extensive writing about her late husband shaped his historical legacy in significant ways. Gordon is the author of George E. Pickett in Life and Legend (The University of North Carolina Press, 1998).

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