Confederate Major General George E. Pickett graduated from WestPoint in 1846. Two of his famous classmates in the US Civil Warwere generals George B. McClellan and Lieutenant General StonewallJackson. Neither of them served at the Battle of Gettysburg, whereunfortunately Pickett's name became well known due to the infamouscharge he led on the last day of the Gettysburg battle in 1863.