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taterguy

(29,582 posts) Wed May 29, 2013, 05:51 PM May 2013

Why do we name fences and charges for the same guy?

Can someone explain that to me?

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Why do we name fences and charges for the same guy? (Original Post) taterguy May 2013 OP

The Confederate's Name is Not Related To the Fence, Sir The Magistrate May 2013 #1

How did you guess that was what... Bay Boy May 2013 #2

Not Much Else It Could Be, Sir The Magistrate May 2013 #3

You, sir, are more intuitive than I am... Bay Boy May 2013 #4

The Magistrate

(95,247 posts)

1. The Confederate's Name is Not Related To the Fence, Sir

Reply to taterguy (Original post)

Wed May 29, 2013, 05:57 PM

May 2013

In old military parlance, a 'picket' was a loosely spaced line of men on outpost duty, off a ways from the main body. The loosely spaced slats of that style of fence took their name from this.

Gen. Pickett was just a man who couldn't say no when told to do something stupid....