On this day 1863, Robert E Lee shouted "Never fight uphill, me b'hoys!" ... So beautiful

[Bucky]

6. General Pickett was planning as if the enemy had muskets

It wasn't the uphill charge that was the deadliest factor so much as the long open field. He was fighting as if his troops were those little wooden blocks that you move around on a game board. To an extent, all of the generals still thought that way. They were still planning for 18th century pre-industrial warfare. 50 years later, European generals still hadn't learned that lesson