| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of major general.) Graduated from West Point, 1846; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in June 1861 and was commissioned as a colonel in the Virginia provisional force in July 1861. Promoted to brigadier general of the Confederate Army in February 1862 and major general in October 1862. Major campaigns and battles include Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines's Mill (wounded), Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, New Bern, Drewry's Bluff, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Appomattox. Following the war, Pickett returned to Virginia and became a businessman. He died in Norfolk, Virginia, in July 1875 and is buried in Richmond, Virginia. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 5. National Historical Society, 1991.
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