The most famous frontal assault in American history took place across the open fields between Seminary Ridge and Cemetery Ridge on 3 July 1863. The high-water mark of the Confederate advance — the small "Angle" in the stone wall, where General Armistead briefly broke the Union line before being shot — is marked with a bronze book and a clutch of monuments.
Walking the route Pickett's men crossed is one of the most powerful ways to feel the battle. The open ground is essentially as it was in 1863, and the line of fire from the Union artillery is brutally obvious in retrospect. Start at the Virginia Memorial on Seminary Ridge and walk east.