Longstreet
- Longstreet watches Pickett's Charge fall apart. Through the white sea of smoke, he can see the carnage, and can see a flag reach the wall before finally falling. As the retreating men swell around him, he does nothing to stop them.
- Pickett wants reinforcements, but Longstreet has none to give. Garnett's horse goes by. Longstreet orders a battery to fire in order to protect Pickett's retreat.
- Fremantle, nearby, doesn't understand what's happened. Longstreet feels massive disgust at the loss of life and the pointlessness of the battle. He picks up a gun dropped by a dead man, thinking he might able to help with it.
- Longstreet cries as he watches Lee ride through the retreating men. Lee is confessing to them, "It is all my fault." Some of the men are crying or begging Lee to let them go back and try again.
- Lee and Longstreet meet, and Pickett comes toward them. Lee asks Pickett to reform his division. Pickett starts to cry, and says he has no division—his men have been slaughtered.
- Longstreet turns away and goes to help fend off a Union counterattack. Sorrel tries to prevent him.
- Goree joins Longstreet but falls off his horse as shells burst around them. The Union troops pull back and don't counterattack.
- Goree and Longstreet sit on a fence, seeing that the Union forces won't come. Goree tells Longstreet not to gamble with his life by charging out like he did before.
- Looking out across the wreckage of the field, Longstreet can see, by the dying light of the sun, the Union soldiers cheering and raising a captured Virginian flag.
- There's no music that night. The men sit alone. Armistead and Garnett have both died, and Kemper too is dying.
- Longstreet feels that the army will never recover from this. Lee, still somewhat majestic even in defeat, rides over to Longstreet. He tells him they're going to withdraw now, and he asks for Longstreet's help.
- Longstreet feels pity for Lee, but he tells him that he thinks they can't win now. Lee says that might be true. Longstreet says he doesn't know if he can go on fighting anymore.
- Lee says that there's nothing left to do but go on. He says it's just one more defeat like any other.
- However, he also says that he and Longstreet have no cause left. They're just fighting for the army—and that's not a way to win.
- Lee rides away, and Longstreet goes back to order his men to retreat… leaving Gettysburg behind forever.