Armistead
- From Seminary Ridge, Armistead watches the bombardment unfold from the Confederate line. The smoke prevents him from seeing too much, and he turns back to his division in the open field behind the ridge.
- Armistead sees Confederates being killed by the Union cannons—though their bombardment isn't as intense as that of the Confederates.
- Armistead gives Pickett a ring from his little finger, telling him to give it to Pickett's wife as a present. Pickett is thankful and asks Armistead for something important to say about this, maybe the last battle of the war.
- Armistead can't think of anything.
- Armistead derives comfort from Longstreet's presence. He keeps checking his watch, thinking about the vow he's about to break in fighting Hancock. He also thinks about the things he loved—his wife, music, his friends.
- General Garnett rides over to Armistead. He's planning to ride rather than walk into battle, since his leg's injured. Armistead explains that he can't do that—it's suicide. He needs to walk or stay back.
- Garnett says he can't walk. The charge that Stonewall Jackson made against him is still there; he apparently wants to die to redeem his honor.
- Garnett tells Armistead about how he heard some men reciting a poem… and also about he managed to drink some Pennsylvania whiskey.
- Garnett rides off, and Armistead says a prayer for him.
- Armistead feels a sense of fate or predestination.
- Pickett rides up and gives Armistead some final instructions. Armistead asks him to get Garnett not to ride—but Pickett won't. It's a matter of honor.
- Armistead goes over to Longstreet. Surprisingly, he sees tears on Longstreet's cheeks. Pickett has tears on his face, too, but they are tears of joy. It's time to go.
- The men get their brigades ready to march. Armistead feels tired and strange. The line starts to move forward as the division forms. A soldier jokes when a hare runs by, saying he'd run too if he were a hare.
- Armistead says goodbye to Garnett, certain that he'll die in the charge. He begins to lead his brigade forward, calling on them to fight for Virginia.
- As the Confederates march, Union artillery starts to fire. More and more Confederates die. Masses of men are taken out near Armistead, and pieces of human flesh and limbs go flying around. Still, the Confederates keep on.
- Garnett is still riding as the three divisions close up gaps and converge. The Union troops open up canister fire, shooting pieces of metal into the Confederate troops. Men start screaming as they're injured and killed.
- Garnett's still riding. He comes over to ask Armistead for help, as the battle gets increasingly chaotic. These two, along with Kemper, try to understand each other.
- Armistead rushes his soldiers ahead to help Garnett's men. As they advance, he urges a scared boy, who has stopped marching, to keep moving.
- Pettigrew's men are retreating, and Kemper's are coming apart. Armistead leads his men on, raising his sword and crying out.
- As he approaches the Union's stonewall, Armistead gets hit in the leg, but he keeps moving. He sees Garnett's rider-less horse.
- Seeing that they've pretty much lost, Armistead summons his men with one last call. He manages to make it over the wall, where his soldiers capture a cannon. But the Yankees are right there, firing at them.
- Armistead gets hit in the side, and then again. Armistead props himself up, mortally wounded. A Union officer stops by and says that he didn't have a chance.
- Armistead asks him how Hancock is doing. The officer says he's been wounded. Armistead tells him to tell Hancock that he's very sorry.
- With that, Armistead, dying, loses consciousness.