Some hours before Pickett's Charge Lee tells Pickett to run his men at the highest speed possible across the field to the stone wall. He says he is expecting high casualties but the development of the battle has left him no choice. 'Speed, and only speed, may be your salvation. We will also launch a final artillery barrage as your charge begins and I am asking your men to run right into their own fire, but the effect, of devils swirling up out of the smoke of this mighty bombardment, may just do the trick and break the line. Godspeed."
Would this work, or make things worse?