Pickett's Charge Armistead leapt the wall and laid his hand on the gun, The last of the three brigadiers who ordered Pickett's brigades, He waved his hat on his sword and "Give 'em the steel!" he cried, A few men followed him over. The rest were beaten or dead. Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown's Body (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1928), 312. It is all over now. Many of us are prisoners...