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George Edward Pickett (1825-1875) was a career United States Army officer who became a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

He is best remembered for leading Pickett's Charge, the futile and bloody Confederate offensive on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg.

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In February, 1864, Pickett had 22 Union prisoners of war hanged on questionable charges of desertion; because of this, Pickett lived in Canada with his family out of fear of prosecution from 1855-1856. He returned to Virginia when the investigation into that matter was halted.

Post-military, Pickett worked as a farmer and sold insurance. He died in Norfolk, Virginia of a liver abscess on July 30, 1875.

Pickett served in the Washington Territory and in 1856 commanded the construction of a fort in Bellingham, Washington.

While in Washington, Pickett married his second wife, a woman from one of the Northern Indigenous peoples