Pickett's Charge was an infantry assault ordered by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen.George G. Meade's Union positions on July 3, 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg in the state of Pennsylvania during the American Civil War.
The monument stands where General Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade began their Charge into the Peach Orchard on July 2nd and represents the desperate hand-to-hand fighting on that day.