In a message dated 3/3/2005 10:01:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, POWELL-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > My ggg-grandfather, Gilbert Washington Powell was in the 56th Virginia > Infantry. This unit was under the command of Stonewall Jackson and > ultimately > General Robert E Lee. Pickett's charge was the ill fated Southern charge > at > Gettysburg, Pa. It was fashionable to name children after their father's > commanding officers and so I assume that's how Gilbert's daughter became > Anne > Jackson Powell. > ------------------------------------------------------------- May I add that Pickett led some 30,000 Southern troops in that ill fated charge. Many were killed before they had gone very far. It was a disaster. Tom Powell