"Glory Enough for One Hundred Years": An Aide Recalls Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg Captain Robert Anderson Bright wrote his recollections of Pickett's Charge in 1873, while events of the late war were still fresh in his memory—but he did not share them until shortly before his death in 1904. Here's his account of where Pickett was and why the attack failed. "Life on the Civil War Research Trail" is hosted by Ronald S. Coddington, Editor and Publisher of Military Images magazine. Learn more abo