Editing George Pickett (section)

===Appomattox===
On April 9, Pickett commanded his remaining troops in the [[Battle of Appomattox Courthouse]], forming up in the final battle line of the Army of Northern Virginia. He surrendered with Lee's army and was paroled at Appomattox Court House on April 12, 1865.<ref>Robbins, p. 292.</ref>

A legend told by Pickett's widow stated that when the Union Army marched into Richmond, she received a surprise visitor. He acted graciously and inquired whether he had found the Pickett house. Abraham Lincoln himself, the story goes, had come to determine the fate of an old acquaintance before the wars, and Sallie, astonished, admitted she was his wife and held out her infant for the president to cradle.<ref>Lankford, p. 242.</ref> Lincoln historian Gerald J. Prokopowicz has called this story a "fantasy".<ref>Prokopowicz, p. 132.</ref>