General Pickett served for the Confederacy and is famous for one certain battle that he was in. At the Battle of Gettysburg he is famous for Pickett’s Charge where General Lee ordered an all out attack. The Confederates lost this battle and suffered major casualties causing them to retreat back to the South. In Pickett’s Charge he was successful at first by breaking the first Union line, but was pushed back and three-quarters of his men were dead or wounded.