Certainly  the  instructions  which  Anderson  re-
ceived did  not  make  it  inciunbent  on  him  to  move
forward  when  Pickett  did.
According  to  the  narrative  given  by  Mrs.  Pickett
in  her  interesting  volume  Pickett  and  His  Men,  her
husband,  not  long  after  the  battle,  wrote  out  a  report
in  which  it  appears  he  made  some  severe  reflections
against  some  of  the  other  generals  of  the  Confederate
Army.  When  Lee  received  and  read  it  he  returned
the  document  to  Pickett,  suggesting  to  him  that  it
should  not  be  allowed  to  appear.  The  request  to
Pickett  from  Lee  is  as  follows,  without  date :

You  and  your  men  have  crowned  yourselves  with  glory;  but
we  have  the  enemy  to  fight,  and  must  carefully  at  this  critical
moment  guard  against  dissensions  which  the  reflections  in  your
report  would  create.  I  will,  therefore,  suggest  that  you  destroy
both  copy  and  original,  substituting  one  confined  to  casualties
merely.  I  hope  all  will  yet  be  well.  [Official  Records,  XXVII,
3:1075-]

There  is,  we  believe,  no  correct  record  of  casualties
in  Pickett's  division;  from  the  Government  records
no  adequate  idea  of  the  losses  can  be  secured.  We
have  elsewhere  added  to  these  the  names  furnished
by  Mrs.  Pickett  in  her  voltmie,  which  include  only
a  score  or  so  of  field-ofificers.
