"Waterloo" is better. It had massed cavalry charges, no CGI. They paid the soviets for tens of thousands of extras who were active soviet soldiers.

Enter: The reenactors

Hancock knew that the Confederate guns were overshooting!

1:13 1:15

Hancock new that the rebel artillery was overshooting the Union lines!!

4 hours?!!!!

Anonymous Not sure if it was 4. But yes. Several hours long with close to around 200 cannons.

(Bzzzzzz) wrong the artillery shelling at Gettysburg could be heard in Harrisburg Pittsburgh and Philadelphia

@@loganmccombs942 I read somewhere that it was the loudest sound heard in the United States until the Trinity detonation.

Wow I am a civil war buff and I didn't even know that the barrage/cannonade lasted several hours that's interesting to know

Never gets old

They were renactors but yes this is too accurate 😂

I knew that voice was familiar.

I knew that wig was familiar.

@@donaldbarnes1144 Try the King of Prussia my friend

Died soon after saying that.

Saddle nail to the groin. Fortunately he and Myra had a couple of kids by then.

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." - Major General John Sedgwick, later in the war

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Gen. Hancock for that alone made himself a legendary American hero

Those cannons are actually recoiling! 😆

@@roderickreilly9666 That's because they have real powder loads in them. Th re-enactors were ecstatic at getting to fire so many cannon at once. Normally you couldn't afford that much powder.

horrible, ridiculous, overacted stupid film w little relation to reality!

and a bunch of overweight, out/shape old reinactors withstupid, overacting so-called "actors." Another dumb lightweight, overacted, underfunded stupid confederate glorifying movie playing to our least educated sides. 'Lincoln' (Daniel Day lewis), 'Glory' (Denzel) are tremendous films, Cold Mt was a realistic film, not an e/z one to watch. Shenendoah (j stewart) was a solid civil war film.

​@@roderickreilly9666Barely. They move very little, not impressive at all.

Seek And DESTROY 16 Do you think Gettysburg movie was 100% accurate ? And do yoi think the music was overwhelming at times ?

Troop movement and battle accounts, yes. Dialogue, probably not. And yes on the soundtrack. Sometimes.

Pro Tier Tabletop - I understand. I don't either. But I love Shelby and have his Civil war series as well!

thats brian pohanka saying that

Ken Burns, actually. The guy who produced the Civil War series for PBS.

What parts did y’all perform?

Emperor Constantine 1. We were Confederates. The first day of filming we practiced for the cannonade, but when we were supposed to film it in the afternoon a huge line of thunderstorms rolled up and ruined that. My father was in the first day battle going up against Bufords Cavalry. And I was in the woods before Pickett’s Charge.

Where you there for this scene being shot? If so what was it like? Im pretty sure they are using blanks here right.

@@stevenrivers8386 no I wasn’t there for this scene, yes blank charges are being used.

@@garandguy101 Not exactly true. My father and I were also extras. We snuck in real ammo and managed to take out a few yanks. The south shall rise again! ;)

I knew there was going to be an artillery only comment

good one.

I feel bad for laughing

Lmfao there were no cameras back then it's based off of an eyewitness account of the Confederate artillery barrage on the third day of the battle

I see you're a gamer of culture as well..

Yeah they should have added a projectile

@@ChodaStanks lol

What will happen if that time have m1 garand and they still fight with same formation.

Syawal Hamidan well they had a gatling gun but didnt use it properly, a bayonet charge can take out a M1 Garand but I suspect they would lose a few hundred soldiers

@@ChodaStanks - neither side wanted the Gatling Gun. It was considered too expensive...

Largest ever in the western hemisphere.

No body uses such thing as a western hemisphere except Americans classic trying to feel big when it's tiny if it was the northern or southern hemisphere people might actually care Americans always trying to seem bigger than it is

446714915461282676 That was in the eastern hemisphere

@@Dayrahl I mean there were lots of other wars that happened in the western hemisphere

@@Dayrahl + We're the center of the world, jelly.

Derek Hansin That guy looked way to young to be Ken Burns.

That documentary is currently on NETFLIX. Great watch for history buffs. Was made three years before this movie!

Jim Chumley It was him! Look at the haircut haha.

then why are there so many bugs in Chicago?

@@Scottie404 Too few civil war battles per day in the streets of Chicago I think?

“Here, yanks, we see them mosquitos biting ya!”

He also ordered the artillery to slowly cease fire to make the illusion of the Confederates destroying the union artillery the man was a genius

@@RandomCT164 yep. You gotta apply intelligence to battle.

Wasn’t the lack of damage due to them using high quality British powder vs the weaker Southern made powder they were used to? The extra energy caused their shots to sail over the targets.

There was not going to be any surprise. The only chance was to knock those guns out on the ridge. Longstreet was correct.....they were never going to take that hill.

Agreed

It lasted 2 hours, not 4 hours.

@@peytonthomas4338 - Corrected, thanks!

Sadly Robert E Lee tried to use field Cannons to do a howitzer's job. So many people died so tragically and needlessly as a result

@Doug Bevins wow you're an idiot

Quite a hollow victory though, Lee managed to escape and the war lasted another 2 years.

Just a question of numbers. 5 to 1. Confederates had the better army.

@@roysimmons3549 yes ! General and Army : totally agree with you. Greetings from Italy

There had been talk for years it was going to happen, but Ted had family blood spilled at the fence (the scene where Turner gets blown up is him portraying his ancestor). It's too bad Maxwell bolluxed up G&G so badly as to ensure Last Full Measure never gets made...

@@kellycochran6487 I wondered what happened. I assumed Hanoi Jane spent all of Ted's money.

@@scottishhellcat Hardly. Maxwell did such a shitty job directing and editing G&G, strayed so far off of the source material and generally screwed everything up that it tanked. Hard. So hard that no one will fund the project. And Ted was already rich before he married Jane Fonda.

...and an exit.

oooof

God bless them boys in gray

LetsDigDirt 2 he didn’t. He blessed the boys in blue the US troops

Lol

I did it on the anniversary of the charge. The weather was exact, sans the steel rain..

I visited the site in the 1970s. It seemed suicidal to launch an attack over such a field.

Done that walk - i cant imagine how did they do that under fire - its an eternity in the open - terrifying

Bravery of the confederates??? Why would I consider that to actually be a existent thing???

@@jellyfish1333 Why do I get the impression you don't have a clue what bravery is all about? Stop using your 21st century morality to judge people who lived 160 yrs ago. Typical liberal BS.

@Doug Bevins They both wanted quick victories against their adversaries and to win the war with one last push.

I have read that the field of Waterloo is much flatter now than in 1815 and the crest that the British sheltered behind was quite a bit higher than now, due to subsequent plowing through generations.

@@OutnBacker yes and no. The crest was removed to create the monument (lions mound) to the Prince of orange. When Wellington visited some years later he complained "they have ruined my battlefield"

i read an statistic about the southern industry output being only 10% of that of the north.

@@@bigbaba1111 The south was defeated by logistics. The north had more industry and also built railway lines on a standard gauge throughout the war on a scale the south could not hope to match. Because of this not only were they able to produce more and better munitions they were able to transport troops and supplies to where they were needed much more quickly than the south.

@@tbruce8187 you are 100% correct. i just wonder, and now i play the "what if" game, what would happen if lee had moved his army between the Potomac army and D.C and fought a defensive battle with the same outcome like fredricksburg? would the north accept a peace offer?

T Bruce there’s a deeper reason. The war was actually rooted in contingency; it’s not like the north crushed the south, and the north actually had more men killed by the south than vice Versa. While it’s normal for the attackers to suffer more deaths, it shows how close of a conflict the war really was. The reason the north really won was the ideological conviction and greater morale that they had over the south, which was due to greater resources granted, but mainly because the confederate troops weren’t secure in their family being protected back home. As a result, there was greater desertion and lower morale.

Actually, the folks who made the movie had little if any control over the arms, equipment and uniforms used. The production company wanted to make as historically-accurate a movie as they could, so they did something only done once or twice before - instead of hiring extras and outfitting them in costume uniforms, they hired re-enactors who brought their own historically correct uniforms, weapons, and equipment. After all, who is going to be more historically accurate than a re-enactor? At the end of the CD there's a section where they showed the filming of the artillery barrage, and one of the re-enactors said that he had never enjoyed anything as much as filming that barrage because they had to do it THREE TIMES to get it right.

Vicksburg surrendered the 4th. The Confederacy was split. Lee couldn't invade the north again, because Grant broke the pattern and didn't retreat after Wilderness. Grant seized the initiative and chased Lee all the way to Petersburg/Richmond.

That “That old man destroyed my division.” I believe is the correct language attributed to Pickett. :)

@@thomassenbart He's quoted multiple different ways. Some accounts say "old man," some don't. Some say he had much more choice words

About two miles

@@jondickison5802 i though the distance is few hundred meters. In the movies of gettysburg its look so close.

Most historians here in Gettysburg Pennsylvania list the distance between the center of the two lines as being a mile between the line of trees behind the Virginia Monument on Seminary Ridge to the High Water Mark Monument at the Corps of Trees on Cemetery Ridge. The Confederate Right Flank where Confederate Avenue converges with the Emmitsburg Road to the Codori Farm where General Pickett watched his division reach the Bloody Angle about a quarter mile. A P. Hood's divisions of Trimble and Pettigrew from modern Long Lane in the Colt Park Housing Development to the William Bryant Farm around 50 yards.

Hancock is a brave general, it was him so saved the army of the Potomac when Stonewall Jacksons did a surprised attack. when the union troops were running he rallied them to repelled the confederates. the battle of Chancellorsville was a defeat for them but they got revenge of the confederates for Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville at Gettysburg.

And by his stupidity in doing so, allowed himself to be killed for his own vanity, rather than living and directing his men in battle and maybe saving their lives and helping shorten the war saving countless other lives.

@Alfred Neuman - It was not stupidity. It was standard behavior of generals and colonels at that time. Perhaps it was not the most utilitarian, viewed by today's standards, but it was not stupid, nor vain.

@@onesojourner7514 And so the North missed out on the leadership and insight of a good general...

@Alfred Neuman - Agreed on that point.

Joshua Desautels were u there

@@kennethmeyer1163 it's a line from the movie

Indeed

In an interview after the movie was made Jeff Daniels (Colonel Chamberlain) was only informed prior to the filming of the artillery barrage that for movie affect there will be the firing of cannon. He said he thought yeah okay that's understandable, it's a war movie so it's to be expected they have to fire a few cannons for the movie. He didn't expect just how many cannons were going to be fired and the intensity of the sound and vibration produced by them. In the interview he said, "When I was laying on the ground, the flinching from me that you saw was real. With each blast of cannon fire the vibration caused the ground to thrust upward into my stomach lifting me off the ground and these cannon were only using a quarter of the powder charge actually used in the battle. How unnerving, how intense it must have been for the men on the battlefield that day

i cant deal w the fat old reinactors in perfect uniforms

He also takes the heights on day 1 which Pettigrew did not.

It was dead still until the attack was forming, and yes it was blind shooting after the first few rounds.

Yes.That's the ways it was.Additionally,they jugded their succes by the amount of return-fire.That is why Union batteries stopped firing!Thereby fooling the rebels!

I read a book about Gettysburg (I'll have to dig it out for the specific title if you are interested) and in it is some soldiers' testimonies of the battle. I remember one saying that at one point you couldn't see more than a foot in front of you so a lot of men were crouching or even laying down to see and get better shots. The humidity those days really made the smoke stick as well.

In reality at Gettysburg,the aprox.150 guns WERE stretched out 2 1/2 miles!

That's not correct. At the battle of malvern hill there were 160 cannons shoulder to shoulder on the field

Idk about how cannon formations work, but it definitely looks cool on screen seeing them go down one by one Also in the opening of Pickett’s Charge later, they did do a volley

It's a movie. They fired blanks, hence no recoil.

Longstreet wasn't the only general to advise Lee, Pickett tried to warn Lee 3 times that a frontal assault was not going to break the line. What Longstreet and Pickett saw that Lee had not was Chamberlain's troops reinforcement of the center. Lee was adamant that Pickett charge. The result was a disaster.The other issue was the Confederate cavalry was off galavanting in Fredrick MD the first two days of. Arriving late to the party. Quite frankly the whole move to take the war north was a waste. One of Lees greatest advantages was being able to keep the Army of the Potomac pinned north of the Rappahannock river. They were held up at Warrenton Virginia, Lee also ignored advice to attack at Warrenton,or to even pursue the Army of the Potomac to Washington after both defeats in Manassas Virginia, which would have given him an advantage. Lee was terrible about listening to those who saw what he didn't.

@@stevenbaker8184 You're right, Lee was truly prideful and stubborn. And his pride destroyed his army.

@@rockytoptom I could expound upon why what I said is true about Warrenton Virginia. McClellan only extended his line out to Orlean Va. If Lee has his army divide and go around to the west then surround the army by coming between his headquarters at Rectortown VA and his army in Warrenton. He at that point would have severed the command from the army. If Early then linked up with Mosby who had already destroyed the railroad at Catlett station. And it also would have cut off any chance of retreat via the Warrenton/Alexandria turnpike. Now the heart of Warrenton is an elevated position. But with no chance of breakout or resupply, the Army of the Potomac would have no choice but to either surrender or be destroyed. Instead he waited and incurred losses the following April at Brandy Station when Custer Crossed the Rappahannock river at Kelly's Ford. Allowed Burnside to move the army to Aquia creek which had a stronger and undamaged railroad. All of this is known because this was the exact advice Lee received. And in destruction of the army of the Potomac, he would have had free hand to then march on Washington almost with impunity. All of that planning wasted because Lee had made a gentlemans agreement not to fight in the winter. Anyone who has lived in Northern Virginia knows our weather patterns allowed for winter fighting East of the mountains it doesn't always get much snow and it may get a little cold it rarely gets excessively cold. So knowing what could have happened but didn't, Lee put himself into a bad spot

and leave OUT the silly background music track!

They probably got a random shirt to battle, since the Confederate Uniform wasn’t exactly standardized. Some might have been thinking about camoflauge

Both sides used friction primers. I used to belong to an artillery reenactment unit. We had a beautiful pair of 12-pound mountain howitzers.