Longstreet and
Pickett introduce Pickett’s officers to
Fremantle.
Armistead jokes that the army is called “
Lee’s Miserables,” after the currently popular novel
Les Miserables. Armistead is jokingly introduced as an elderly “Lothario,” though he is actually a shy widower.
Garnett is known for being sickly, and
Kemper for being a politician (a former member of the Virginia legislature) and suspicious of foreigners. As the crowd begins to become more sentimental and to share drinks, Longstreet withdraws again.