The war hero George Pickett died at the age of 50. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Remembered best as the namesake and leader of the unsuccessful “Pickett’s Charge” assault at the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, this Confederate Army soldier was later defeated at both the Battle of Five Forks and the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse.
He and his seven younger siblings were born into a prominent Virginia family. After Pickett’s death, his wife, LaSalle Corbell Pickett, published Soldier of the South: General Pickett’s War Letters to His Wife and several other works purporting to detail his life and wartime experiences.