Hancock was a total badass. Exceptionally brave, excellent at motivating his men, and superb at coordinating his troops and at reading the battlefield.
Hancock the Superb! It took real guts to be a general back then. Though if I'm the aide with the banner, I might be thinking, yeah, but what about MY life? Not to mention his horse. Which in real life had the common sense to be frightened out of its wits - he switched to an aide's horse mid ride.
One Southern author...David Williams in the book "Bitterly Divided, the South's Inner Civil War", puts the number of white Southerners in the Union Army at around 500,000. So the Unionist South did in fact, win the war.
You grew up in the best country in the world, because of it.
@UnionStatesHeritage I don't understand your obsessive stalking of Southern people. If we are so vile, why do you insist on the other hand that the Union would be crippled and fate unbearable without us? This Tarheel knows that tarheelsTM is correct that NC provided the most soldiers for the Confederacy and "went the farthest and longest". Why can you not respect the courage of individuals on both sides, like the vetrans of this conflict did?
@stellalouise1 You would laugh, if you knew where he moved to, South Carolina! He is from Southern Pennsylvania, never had any family fight in the Civil War and does not jack shit about the battles or much of the war. He will generally quote Mosby, type about miners out in the West and look for any tiny dirt on the war about slavery. About all you will get from him.
i wonder what if the british invaded us a 3RD time, what woulda happen had all the civil war generals been fighting on the same side? OOH man the redcoats woulda been slaughtered. Just daydreaming i know its futile. but it woulda made 1 helluva war
Those grey bags got what they deserve. If my people could have been on that field during that time General Pickett wouldn't have made it back neither. We would have cleaned-up. Especially for what they did to my people. Times have really changed. All my females are Caucasian and my girl friend is Caucasian. Top that!
@tearsofseven The times have changed for the better but at the time of the war only 3% of the southern population owned slaves. Most of the southern troops were not fighting to keep slavery but what they felt was state rights. And in typical fashion the poor went off to fight one-another while the rich and politicians sat at home unaffected by the bloodshed.
Yep, and that's why Southerners started deserting in droves after the passage of the Twenty Slave Law. Something you won't read about in "The South Was Right".
@dep92 Correction: Most of the Southern soldiers didn't THINK they were fighting to preserve the slave economy but that is exactly what they were doing. Just like most Northerners would have damned you to hell if you told them you were fighting for "the darkies" but that is EXACTLY what they were doing. The overriding issue of the Civil War, indeed the first 87 years of the country, was slavery. It was, as Jefferson called it in 1820,"The Death Knell Of The Union."
@tearsofseven No one deserved to die, on either side. They both faught for just causes. And sorry to dissapoint you, but the war was not faught for your people, it was faught to preserve the Union. Slavery was a small factor, and Blacks would not have faught at Gettysburg either.
Also seen in this clip is one of the most famed actions during the battle --- Hancock's Ride --- where Maj. Gen. Winfield Hancock remained mounted and moving among his men during the bombardment. Hancock even galloped out behind the Union skirmish line during the Confederate advance. It was, as many men there described it, the bravest act they had ever seen done by a high-ranking officer.
To answer some other people's questions of "distant thunder" that could have been a rain storm.
Some battle, even if a mile or two away, soldiers and generals could not even hear the battle. Mountains, the wind direction all caused an "acoustic shadow."
The battle of Perryville, Kentucky is a perfect example. The Union 3rd Corps under "General" Gilbert, claimed he and his men heard nothing. They were two miles away....
The dramatic detail that this required was in fact witness to the fact that the south was not fooling around.This was a terrible fight with Robert E. Lee wishing to dislodge Union positions,it was not terribly successful.The North new better and kept there heads down,they even were able to anticipate Lees attack on the Union Center.One thing that action by Hancock almost cost him perhaps his life,he was wounded while so engaged.
If the South won, there would still be a Union and a Confederacy. The South would probably still be separated and enjoy the same kind of rewards we fought for from the Revolutionary War.
The Confederate had 170 artillery pieces in the confederate Battery barriage, you probably heard that it was the loudest man made noise in the north. Abe Lincoln could hear the noise from the white house. He said it sounded like distant thunder from there
For 2 Full hours the confederate bombarded the federal line.
During the actual battle, nearly 150 cannons were fired on the Confederate side alone...for the movie, only 45 pieces were used for this spectacular shot...There will be 100+ cannons this year at Gettysburg 145th on July 4th!
i met a guy at my friends grad party who has a cannon who does the reancmte and is on the osuth side he said if i can get to the battle fields i can be on his crew and we were talking and we would boht like to be there at the gettysburg renacment
My team had are cannon in the movie because my pard in arms is also a reenactor. I am with the n-ssa. North and South Skirmish Association... Are Ten Pounder was the second gun that was fire in the bombardment... Yes there was only 45 cannons
If I were in the American Civil War, I would be in the Union Army. In the Battle of Gettysburg I would be a field commander, and if a Confederate cavalry charge the Union infantry line I would command the troops to fix bayonets and form squares.
Great Grandfathers Fought in the Confederate Army and was almost killed from Shrapnel.
Lets not criticize This but think about what we can do to prevent Wars. Let the Civil War be a Lesson. We cannot Change History but we can prevent disasters.
You must have failed history badly or some emo teenager whose opinion on wars were developed from watching Gundam cartoons. Im willing to bet you think amerikkka is the only country to have wars in that void you call so desperately call a brain.
mcmillspiece.......shut up. where the fuck do u live in france? and if u dont..then u should move ur ass there. its the only country that thinks the way u do
Lee's artillery fired for 2 straight hours. It was so loud that people in Pittsburg could hear it. Half of Lee's artillery was actually captured Union artillery from 1st Bull Run to Chancellorsville.
nonstop cannon fire in this clip wow thats crazy those Battles way back in the day. Very Old School but interesting!!! Amazing what they used for bullets in there guns Musket Balls.
my uncle and dad were extras and when they finished filming ted turner sent out these faux mustarded out paper like when they mustarded out units when their duty was done to every extra. it was creative way to thank them in a way that meant more than some stupid letter saying thanks.
:D that just goes to show napoleonic charges are not wise anymore... by that time... and oh yeah... wat if the battle of gettysburg was won for the confederate side.. :D maybe the CSA really would have been formed.. :D
History would have been altered for sure! However, Grant was still winning in the west, Washington D.C. boasted many defences, and Lincoln was very stubborn. Also, by wars end the North fielded armies in the hundreds of thousands, something the South could not match.
Why didn't the confederats fire some cannon low and to the ground to destroy the fences? Then Picketts charge would of been easier because the fences would be broken and the south could of moved through the fences with ease. How come some of the cannon didn't focus on breaking uup the fences?
We have learned from history that their cannon ball fuses were shorter than the ones they usually used. They were initially supposed to test them 3 days after the battle began. So their shots were going off too soon to be properly aimed (is not until late 1864 that accurate artillery fire and rifled guns capable of faster rate, better range, and improved become common place).
"Tell them all Virginia was here" refers to the descendants of Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, etc, who were all native Virginians.
In other words, those who fought for the Confederacy were related to the Founding Fathers. They were the ones who were fighting for real Constitutional liberty.
The Union soldiers were unknowingly used as tools for the banks and the soon to be Orwellian government.
Also confederates reportly made the attack in retaliation for the Battle of Fredericksburg, VA in 1862. Union army raided Fredericksburg so, in 1863, confederates(and soldiers from VA whose property was raided) raided Gettysburg for it's supplies.
that's true, but the idea was that canon take a while to reload, cannot adjust their aim easily, and are not armed for close combat. If the infantry can survive until they're too close for the canons to fire on them strategically, they have the advantage, being better armed for close combat, and much more maneuverable.
The fence proved deadly as it took quite a while to climb over it. The Union also had the advantage that in the preliminary bombardment counterfire often overshot the Confederate cannon and hit the waiting infantry in the woods. At the stone wall as well, many men were given more than one rifle, allowing a steady and deadly stream of initial fire to be laid down.
Also the confederates when they reached the fence they moved further in broadside of the union troops i believe it was one of the vermont brigades that did the most damage.
If you want to see the effects of LIVE FIRE Civil War artillery projectiles, check out some of the Paulson Brothers videos.This movie sucked almost as bad as Gods and Generals. All it did was inflate fat guys egos. Thank God I quit reenacting.
cardigan 181 is right,history doesn't change,so I'd rather stay on the winning side since from 300B.C. until 1948A.D. we got our asses kicked with no army,no regiment, no platoon or even squad.Tables can turn its sticky but I'd rather win than be a statistic.P.S. anyone who has an idea like national suicide can eat my circumsized male organ.
your right history doesn't change it's a cycle with just diffrent people and diffrent years. the inca new that. but now we see throw backs from muslims from the 7th century who are rasing biblical alarm. around the world they cry out for the blood of the infidel. i can read verse, these monsters need to be stopped. political correctness and anti american is the death of the west. as it was for the romans which fell to the barbarians.
I agree. I like it when the cannons are going off, it puts you in the moment. Especially at reenactments where they sneak a few M80 fireworks to explode over head. This is wrong though. My favorite movie, but the battle did not go like this. That lasted for 2 hours, and all 2 hours, the Confederates overfired by a couple hundred yards. Historian have proved it. So no Federal troops died during the bombardment, Confederates, yes. I am a private for the 6th Ohio Vol. Inf., long live the Union!
Quite a few Federal troops died in the bombardment - but mainly rear-echelon ones; including an officer's servant who had his head taken off whilst serving butter at lunch.
bewmius, the domino effect wasn't a theory, it was a fact. First the Soviet Union, then China, the large parts of South East Asia and South American. Do you honestly believe that the Chinese, much of Southeast Asia, South America etc all came to a decision to be communist out of the blue? There was Soviet influence in all 3 areas, economically, militarily, and culturally. It is the same with Western Democracy, English Bill of rights-American Revolution-French revolution and so on.
hyrocket FROM ONE WEEK AGO. THE CONFEDERATES DID THIS. AS A LIVING HISTORIAN AND A HISTORIAN OF THE BATTLEFIELD. THE CONFEDERATE FIRED 140 CANNON FOR A 2 HOUR BOMBARDMENT AGAINST THE FEDERALS 80 CANNONS. IN THE MOVIE THEY CONFEDERATE HAD I THINK 60 ON THE LINE AND THE FEDERALS ABOUT 10-20 I CAN'T REMEMBER
MY FRIEND AND HIS TEAM WERE IN THE MOVIE WITH ARE 10 PARROTT RIFLED CANNON.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse." -John Stewart Mill. Almost all the wars the US fought in the last 60 years were to prevent greater catastrophes. If you seriously doubt that, than go ask some South Vietnamese what happened to their families after the war, and put yourself in their shoes.
i'm definitely sure that Irak was a better place to live, (just slightly better), but better when Sadam Husein was the dictator ruling that country than now, where every day dies huge amount of people and no better situation is coming... and i really doubt any conflict could mend something better than words and acts.
So what if it was a better place to live before the war. Who's fault is it that the place is riddled with Sectarian strife, with thousands dying every month? Not ours. Yes, shia muslims want democracy, with themselves in charge, as do the Sunnis, but they do not want to peacefully coexist. That's their problem, and only they can fix that.
The ONLY reason Europeans (except the brits) are not involved in foreign wars is because their militaries lack the capabilties to do so. The combined EU military budget is half that of the U.S., yet their power projection capabilities re at 5% of the US. What happens when you have something like Bosnia again and the US doesn't feel like moving your militaries around for you?
interesting point. Though I don't know how much most EU nations would rather rely on either the UN or NATO to deal with and/or contain-prevent foreign skirmishes or wars. Other than Iraq, nations such as Italy and Denmark have sent a small number of forces to Afghanistan, Somalia and Ruwanda. Though not a large contingent especially in the battle field, those two nations play a role with peacekeeping and vital information
What Europeans call peacekeeping in Afghanistan is sitting in safe FOB's sipping coffee while the rest of the country goes to hell. Rwanda, aren't they a little late? And as for Somalia, the news I see everyday of that place is uncontested proof that peace is the last thing those people want. The peacekeepers job is to hold a gun and look scary. The warfighters job is to kill those who disrupt the peace.
north american should learn some of the rest of the world history... then you'll realize about how young your history is and how much you need to learn
exactly. To not start wars all over the world as europeans did in the past,... now north americans keep fighting all over the world, so, you didn't learnt anything.
Yeah, we kind of have a tendency to fight back when attacked. And if I recall if it weren't for Americans and Canadians fighting halfway around the world when they didn'thalf to, Europeans would be living in either a Nazi or Communist Russia totalitarian state.
it's alright living in a dream, americans attack first and then ask... Irak, Afganistan, Corea, Vietnam,... just Japan attacked first and americans used the most terrible weapon the man could invent,... fighting in the 2nd WW and forgeting about a dictatorship in Spain... that wasn't help, americans fought that war because of the global economy that germany could took control, so ... amercan's couldn't admit others as world leaders XD ... remember the cold war...
Afghanistan; the people responsible for attacking our country were being harbored there. Korea, North Korea invades South Korea, US military invention keeps South from becoming a dark and dreary communist dictatorship that now keeps North Korea among the poorest and most oppressed people on Earth. After the US left South Vietnam, the NVA moved in and it was a bloodbath. Iraq, God forbid, we removed a dictator. It just seems that every Iraqi wants to take Saddam's place.
Hahaha why did i have a feeling that, that would be your reply?, still the same old, but dont become more true by repeating it, US & Canada diddent go into the war for my sake or Europe´s sake, but for its own security, if Hitler had taken the USSR, and Japan all of Asia?, hmmmm wonder who they would go after next???? The North or South Pole?, nah could be the USA;-)
Oh, so the mighty German Wehrmacht would have crossed the Atlantic to attack the North Americans. The Wehrmacht at it's peak didn't even have the capability to invade the UK, and you want me to believe they were ready to cross the Atlantic? You do realise that such is a logistical impossibility for even the US military today do you not? What would have ensued is a long cold war. Besides, North and South America had more resources than the whole of Eurasia combined.
You and others won the war, we won the peace, thats much more difficult, a leason you could learn from us when one think of the war in Iraq, a war Bush claimed were finished the 1st.of May what year was it lol?, when is the peace won ehehehe?
If I recall alvarokas, Spain had it's own civil war in the 1930's did it not? Funny how you slate the US for fighting a war that happened over 150 years ago when your civil war was considerably closer to today.
i'm not justifiying a civil war, ours was the worst thing that could happen, that's why i call to american people to not feeling alright with things earned by killing people at war. Spain is not fighting against others, americans are always at war, from 1942 to 2007 fighting... that's awful.
The peace cannot be won by the U.S. Army. Any military that calls itself a peacekeeping force is setting itself up for failure. How can you keep the peace in Iraq when all the Iraqis want to do is kill eachother? Only the Iraqis can "keep the peace".
also according to records Lee would have won the war had Ulysses not shown up to fight. also the loss of General Jackson didnt help either and with reinforcements scattered as they were it was impossible to recover. thats why they consider Ulysses as "the only man capable of matching the wits of Lee.... the 2 finest generals of the Civil War."
No doubt Lee was the greatest general of the civil war, probably one of the greatest of all times. But he too could make mistakes, There is no such thing as a perfect commander.
Ahh you forget The Rock of Chickamuaga, George Thomas. Grant and Sherman were quoted as saying he was one of the best, if not the best of the war. It was because he was a Virginian that he was held back for so long.
If the South had won at Gettysburg, the war would probably have come to a much sooner end, possibly within a month, thereby saving about 200,000 more white people their lives.
And having the South as an independent nation would not be bad, as it's slavery would have died out with a couple decades anyway.
lee did take lessons. he graduated at the top of his class at West Point. Also read his biography it says that at this battle he realized "the plans and assault itself seemed so similar to Napoleons plans at waterloo that I could of acted as if it happened yesterday. What fools we have been!" Lee wasnt recognized as the South's greatest general because of nothing.
Maybe a guilty pleasure, but one of my most favorite war epics ever. Perhaps somewhat lethargic towards the end, and the flagwaving music gets over played, but the action, the performances, the pageantry, and keen depiction of the battle save that for me.
The movie portrays the Union as answering the Fire towards the Confederates, the fact is that the Union only fired in the beginning of the bombardment, then they stopped, leading the Confederates to believe that they had destroyed the Unoin Artillery, they charged, and were off course meat by Canister ands volleyfire, poor things...
Any one wanting to have a go at the Civil war can join a reencatment society, it's great fun, and quite interesting to try it out for you self, live the life, fell the feelings, see the sights, hear the shots, fire the weapons, it very fascinating...
also. people who still call themselves a yank or rebel please just....stop.....ok when civilians pick up guns under the old flags and shoot each other in massive waves of thousands upon thousands then you can go ahead and call yourself that.....ok cuz the civil war was over long time ago and no matter what you call yourself or what side your for....that cursed war aint starting up again. 2 governments are gonna split and form again and a massacre of thousands is not happenin
grant respected bravery. *not to defend sides or offend others here* the north had more tendancy to let men die as men. the south was more into fighting them until they fled and when they did flee they would chase em down like dogs until they were trapped or obliterated. anyone who has seen this movie will know about a commander whos entire battallion of men was slaughtered
Hancock was a total badass. Exceptionally brave, excellent at motivating his men, and superb at coordinating his troops and at reading the battlefield.
Crymson1 10 months ago
Hancock the Superb! It took real guts to be a general back then. Though if I'm the aide with the banner, I might be thinking, yeah, but what about MY life? Not to mention his horse. Which in real life had the common sense to be frightened out of its wits - he switched to an aide's horse mid ride.
whiskeypriest1 1 year ago
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whiskeypriest1 1 year ago
wow that is awesome!! wish the south would have won!
tarheelsTM 1 year ago
@tarheelsTM
Why? So you could be pulling your forelock for some Planter, and being treated worse than his slaves?
North Carolina had one of the highest concentrations of Unionists and Confederate deserters. There's a good reason for it.
UnionStatesHeritage 1 year ago
@UnionStatesHeritage u need to read up on your history! NC lost more men in the civil war than any other southern state.
tarheelsTM 1 year ago
@tarheelsTM
One Southern author...David Williams in the book "Bitterly Divided, the South's Inner Civil War", puts the number of white Southerners in the Union Army at around 500,000. So the Unionist South did in fact, win the war.
You grew up in the best country in the world, because of it.
UnionStatesHeritage 1 year ago
@UnionStatesHeritage I don't understand your obsessive stalking of Southern people. If we are so vile, why do you insist on the other hand that the Union would be crippled and fate unbearable without us? This Tarheel knows that tarheelsTM is correct that NC provided the most soldiers for the Confederacy and "went the farthest and longest". Why can you not respect the courage of individuals on both sides, like the vetrans of this conflict did?
stellalouise1 11 months ago
@stellalouise1 You would laugh, if you knew where he moved to, South Carolina! He is from Southern Pennsylvania, never had any family fight in the Civil War and does not jack shit about the battles or much of the war. He will generally quote Mosby, type about miners out in the West and look for any tiny dirt on the war about slavery. About all you will get from him.
rebel2276 11 months ago
sad but true
americanmuscle123 1 year ago
i wonder what if the british invaded us a 3RD time, what woulda happen had all the civil war generals been fighting on the same side? OOH man the redcoats woulda been slaughtered. Just daydreaming i know its futile. but it woulda made 1 helluva war
stringerboi 1 year ago
too bad the south lost. Now we have worthless negros
calimar28 1 year ago
Those grey bags got what they deserve. If my people could have been on that field during that time General Pickett wouldn't have made it back neither. We would have cleaned-up. Especially for what they did to my people. Times have really changed. All my females are Caucasian and my girl friend is Caucasian. Top that!
tearsofseven 1 year ago
@tearsofseven The times have changed for the better but at the time of the war only 3% of the southern population owned slaves. Most of the southern troops were not fighting to keep slavery but what they felt was state rights. And in typical fashion the poor went off to fight one-another while the rich and politicians sat at home unaffected by the bloodshed.
dep92 1 year ago
@dep92
Yep, and that's why Southerners started deserting in droves after the passage of the Twenty Slave Law. Something you won't read about in "The South Was Right".
UnionStatesHeritage 1 year ago
@dep92 Correction: Most of the Southern soldiers didn't THINK they were fighting to preserve the slave economy but that is exactly what they were doing. Just like most Northerners would have damned you to hell if you told them you were fighting for "the darkies" but that is EXACTLY what they were doing. The overriding issue of the Civil War, indeed the first 87 years of the country, was slavery. It was, as Jefferson called it in 1820,"The Death Knell Of The Union."
Shafeone 6 months ago
@tearsofseven Your trash.
calimar28 1 year ago
@tearsofseven No one deserved to die, on either side. They both faught for just causes. And sorry to dissapoint you, but the war was not faught for your people, it was faught to preserve the Union. Slavery was a small factor, and Blacks would not have faught at Gettysburg either.
MadridSpain94 1 year ago
@MadridSpain94
The South fought to preserve slavery, so yes, the war was fought over slavery.
No slavery, no secession, no war.
"The South fought on account of the thing we quarreled with the North about. I never heard of any other cause for quarrel, than slavery"
John Singleton Mosby...CSA.
UnionStatesHeritage 1 year ago
I love the begin in this part ^^
So dam fun whit cannons :D
88Tomm88 1 year ago
Also seen in this clip is one of the most famed actions during the battle --- Hancock's Ride --- where Maj. Gen. Winfield Hancock remained mounted and moving among his men during the bombardment. Hancock even galloped out behind the Union skirmish line during the Confederate advance. It was, as many men there described it, the bravest act they had ever seen done by a high-ranking officer.
agatematt 1 year ago
over 1000 people went deaf during the making of this movie
DarkHour404 1 year ago
This is one of my top 5 movies and the story behind the making of this movie is almost better then the movie itself.
niceguytim 2 years ago 2
if only men like hancock still existed....
MisterGage77 2 years ago
To answer some other people's questions of "distant thunder" that could have been a rain storm.
Some battle, even if a mile or two away, soldiers and generals could not even hear the battle. Mountains, the wind direction all caused an "acoustic shadow."
The battle of Perryville, Kentucky is a perfect example. The Union 3rd Corps under "General" Gilbert, claimed he and his men heard nothing. They were two miles away....
rebel2276 2 years ago
This is Napoleon's artillery.
tortue2008 2 years ago
Perfect!!!! love this movie and this part of this great movie!
Anfield4Ever 2 years ago 2
0:37, so shitty.
Heer69 2 years ago
The dramatic detail that this required was in fact witness to the fact that the south was not fooling around.This was a terrible fight with Robert E. Lee wishing to dislodge Union positions,it was not terribly successful.The North new better and kept there heads down,they even were able to anticipate Lees attack on the Union Center.One thing that action by Hancock almost cost him perhaps his life,he was wounded while so engaged.
Uncle65788 3 years ago
If the South won, there would still be a Union and a Confederacy. The South would probably still be separated and enjoy the same kind of rewards we fought for from the Revolutionary War.
Agent1W 3 years ago 3
wed just be a off breed from america
dsettleascii 3 years ago
Hancock, the superb!
Tapmann 3 years ago
can u believe over 600,000 men lost their lives in this war?
sluggo080 3 years ago
WOW this is some amzin stuff nothin like the war with Iraq here 55,000 people died in 4 years. Truly Amazing
MizumiMysst001 3 years ago
These altillerys kicksass!
pelihullu69 3 years ago
Pelihullu69...
The Confederate had 170 artillery pieces in the confederate Battery barriage, you probably heard that it was the loudest man made noise in the north. Abe Lincoln could hear the noise from the white house. He said it sounded like distant thunder from there
For 2 Full hours the confederate bombarded the federal line.
confederateBattery1 3 years ago
What is your source on Lincoln hearing the noise from the White House?
rebel2276 3 years ago
it is a historical fact that the confederate cannons were heard 150 miles away in philly. so im pretty sure ole abe heard them at the white house
AK47cowboy 2 years ago
Both sides firing during "Pickett's Charge" created the "loudest sound ever heard on the North American continent."
In Pittsburg (150) miles to the west, they heard it. Harrisburg (40 miles) away heard it.
People in Baltimore, claimed they heard "rolling thunder."
But as far as Washington City and Lincoln hearing the battle, I have no evidence on that.
Just provide me with a source where you found (in a book, magazine, internet etc)
that Lincoln heard it.
Thank you
rebel2276 2 years ago
@confederateBattery1 I'm not sure about Lincoln hearing it from the White House.
But it's been documented that the battle could be heard from Philadelphia.
nognilk 1 year ago
Any one have this movie in it's full length version?
lakelandchief 3 years ago
Yes, I have but on DVD...in Poland. I ordered this movie from USA via internet.
xavras76 3 years ago
wow , can tell me someone how much cannos shot here?
MaxPayne719 3 years ago
During the actual battle, nearly 150 cannons were fired on the Confederate side alone...for the movie, only 45 pieces were used for this spectacular shot...There will be 100+ cannons this year at Gettysburg 145th on July 4th!
brokenspears 3 years ago
i met a guy at my friends grad party who has a cannon who does the reancmte and is on the osuth side he said if i can get to the battle fields i can be on his crew and we were talking and we would boht like to be there at the gettysburg renacment
dieselman1988 3 years ago
My team had are cannon in the movie because my pard in arms is also a reenactor. I am with the n-ssa. North and South Skirmish Association... Are Ten Pounder was the second gun that was fire in the bombardment... Yes there was only 45 cannons
confederateBattery1 3 years ago
Was there a part in this movie where an officers head gets blown off while leading a charge? Maybe i'm thinking of glory.
polpiv4tifi 3 years ago
Yes, it was Glory, at Sharpsburg (2nd Massachusetts).
rebel2276 3 years ago
cheers
polpiv4tifi 3 years ago
I don't get it,
confederateBattery1 3 years ago
The amount of casualties for the Confederacy and the Union at Gettysburg were almost the same. Also, this movie was a very well done reenactment.
youloser432 3 years ago
If I were in the American Civil War, I would be in the Union Army. In the Battle of Gettysburg I would be a field commander, and if a Confederate cavalry charge the Union infantry line I would command the troops to fix bayonets and form squares.
knightsofstjoan2004 3 years ago
may not have been enough time but i will admit the theory is sound...
seeker2482 3 years ago
Woulda been weird if the south won. Maybe not such a great thing.
skunkfromtheashes 3 years ago
The Civil War was an Unavoidable War, one of my
Great Grandfathers Fought in the Confederate Army and was almost killed from Shrapnel.
Lets not criticize This but think about what we can do to prevent Wars. Let the Civil War be a Lesson. We cannot Change History but we can prevent disasters.
ggrtr 3 years ago 2
You must have failed history badly or some emo teenager whose opinion on wars were developed from watching Gundam cartoons. Im willing to bet you think amerikkka is the only country to have wars in that void you call so desperately call a brain.
REDjester 3 years ago 2
mcmillspiece.......shut up. where the fuck do u live in france? and if u dont..then u should move ur ass there. its the only country that thinks the way u do
chrisdefjam 3 years ago
Lee's artillery fired for 2 straight hours. It was so loud that people in Pittsburg could hear it. Half of Lee's artillery was actually captured Union artillery from 1st Bull Run to Chancellorsville.
rebel2276 3 years ago
nonstop cannon fire in this clip wow thats crazy those Battles way back in the day. Very Old School but interesting!!! Amazing what they used for bullets in there guns Musket Balls.
bstep13 3 years ago
my uncle and dad were extras and when they finished filming ted turner sent out these faux mustarded out paper like when they mustarded out units when their duty was done to every extra. it was creative way to thank them in a way that meant more than some stupid letter saying thanks.
hartshornguy 3 years ago
Must have been so awesome to be the producer of that film. Cannons!
Serethen 3 years ago 6
@Serethen
tarheelsTM 1 year ago
yup
tarheelsTM 1 year ago
:D that just goes to show napoleonic charges are not wise anymore... by that time... and oh yeah... wat if the battle of gettysburg was won for the confederate side.. :D maybe the CSA really would have been formed.. :D
spook289 3 years ago
History would have been altered for sure! However, Grant was still winning in the west, Washington D.C. boasted many defences, and Lincoln was very stubborn. Also, by wars end the North fielded armies in the hundreds of thousands, something the South could not match.
jonnycoolg 3 years ago
Why didn't the confederats fire some cannon low and to the ground to destroy the fences? Then Picketts charge would of been easier because the fences would be broken and the south could of moved through the fences with ease. How come some of the cannon didn't focus on breaking uup the fences?
cleftronix 3 years ago
We have learned from history that their cannon ball fuses were shorter than the ones they usually used. They were initially supposed to test them 3 days after the battle began. So their shots were going off too soon to be properly aimed (is not until late 1864 that accurate artillery fire and rifled guns capable of faster rate, better range, and improved become common place).
LC65 3 years ago 2
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hmmm.... 4:20.
Heil Hitler!!!
EagleAndShield 3 years ago
Damn the confederates had some cannon batteries!
cleftronix 3 years ago
Damn, where'd the confederates get all that artillery
EagleAndShield 3 years ago
never really understood the whole Virginian thing? but the book is amazing as the movie is...!!!
marietiger 4 years ago
"Tell them all Virginia was here" refers to the descendants of Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, etc, who were all native Virginians.
In other words, those who fought for the Confederacy were related to the Founding Fathers. They were the ones who were fighting for real Constitutional liberty.
The Union soldiers were unknowingly used as tools for the banks and the soon to be Orwellian government.
BattleReb 3 years ago 2
not all the founding fathers. Many of them were from the north.
ericintohistory 3 years ago 2
@BattleReb Very well said.
organics4me 1 year ago
Also confederates reportly made the attack in retaliation for the Battle of Fredericksburg, VA in 1862. Union army raided Fredericksburg so, in 1863, confederates(and soldiers from VA whose property was raided) raided Gettysburg for it's supplies.
EagleAndShield 3 years ago
This really needed to include the "all Virginia was here" speech that Armistead gives just before they go out.
cadetcap 4 years ago 5
totally right man.
BelfastBrigade17 4 years ago 2
ahhh pickets charge.....wat i dont understand is that basically ur walking into ur own grave poor ppl getting shot by canon :'(
pcd11510 4 years ago
that's true, but the idea was that canon take a while to reload, cannot adjust their aim easily, and are not armed for close combat. If the infantry can survive until they're too close for the canons to fire on them strategically, they have the advantage, being better armed for close combat, and much more maneuverable.
murtlesvilleman 4 years ago
It's called 'courage'.
BattleReb 3 years ago
The fence proved deadly as it took quite a while to climb over it. The Union also had the advantage that in the preliminary bombardment counterfire often overshot the Confederate cannon and hit the waiting infantry in the woods. At the stone wall as well, many men were given more than one rifle, allowing a steady and deadly stream of initial fire to be laid down.
squigian 3 years ago
Also the confederates when they reached the fence they moved further in broadside of the union troops i believe it was one of the vermont brigades that did the most damage.
toomanynamestopick 3 years ago
If you want to see the effects of LIVE FIRE Civil War artillery projectiles, check out some of the Paulson Brothers videos.This movie sucked almost as bad as Gods and Generals. All it did was inflate fat guys egos. Thank God I quit reenacting.
garand1944 4 years ago
cardigan 181 is right,history doesn't change,so I'd rather stay on the winning side since from 300B.C. until 1948A.D. we got our asses kicked with no army,no regiment, no platoon or even squad.Tables can turn its sticky but I'd rather win than be a statistic.P.S. anyone who has an idea like national suicide can eat my circumsized male organ.
MosheNL 4 years ago
your right history doesn't change it's a cycle with just diffrent people and diffrent years. the inca new that. but now we see throw backs from muslims from the 7th century who are rasing biblical alarm. around the world they cry out for the blood of the infidel. i can read verse, these monsters need to be stopped. political correctness and anti american is the death of the west. as it was for the romans which fell to the barbarians.
hartshornguy 4 years ago
I agree. I like it when the cannons are going off, it puts you in the moment. Especially at reenactments where they sneak a few M80 fireworks to explode over head. This is wrong though. My favorite movie, but the battle did not go like this. That lasted for 2 hours, and all 2 hours, the Confederates overfired by a couple hundred yards. Historian have proved it. So no Federal troops died during the bombardment, Confederates, yes. I am a private for the 6th Ohio Vol. Inf., long live the Union!
ChaserRox94 4 years ago
Quite a few Federal troops died in the bombardment - but mainly rear-echelon ones; including an officer's servant who had his head taken off whilst serving butter at lunch.
lomax343 4 years ago
Wrong, of 10,000 Union soldiers across road, 200 died from that artillery bombardment.
EagleAndShield 3 years ago
actually no anime... for me all those cannons goin off is soothin for me wehen i'm on the battle field, cause it puts you in the moment
CoA5thVa 4 years ago
Damn, just try and think about all of those guns firing at once... like no noise I've ever heard in my entire life. You'd prolly go deaf.
AnimeAndHaloDOMix 4 years ago 2
This scenario is wrong. The Sth could not have lost this.
wikiriwhi 4 years ago
bewmius, the domino effect wasn't a theory, it was a fact. First the Soviet Union, then China, the large parts of South East Asia and South American. Do you honestly believe that the Chinese, much of Southeast Asia, South America etc all came to a decision to be communist out of the blue? There was Soviet influence in all 3 areas, economically, militarily, and culturally. It is the same with Western Democracy, English Bill of rights-American Revolution-French revolution and so on.
mhesi 4 years ago 2
just wait. in 50 years, iraq will be better-
boynamedblue 4 years ago 2
Bull!, Iraq is about Oil and Corporations, old men talking, and young men dying, History does not change, wake up!
cardigan181 4 years ago
the best movie of war and this part is so amazing
Labette7901 4 years ago
hyrocket FROM ONE WEEK AGO. THE CONFEDERATES DID THIS. AS A LIVING HISTORIAN AND A HISTORIAN OF THE BATTLEFIELD. THE CONFEDERATE FIRED 140 CANNON FOR A 2 HOUR BOMBARDMENT AGAINST THE FEDERALS 80 CANNONS. IN THE MOVIE THEY CONFEDERATE HAD I THINK 60 ON THE LINE AND THE FEDERALS ABOUT 10-20 I CAN'T REMEMBER
MY FRIEND AND HIS TEAM WERE IN THE MOVIE WITH ARE 10 PARROTT RIFLED CANNON.
10lbsparrott 4 years ago
That is a very brave general at 4:00
Kdawg195 4 years ago
Winfield Scott Hancock, General of Second Corps. I think.
rebelsoldier1861 4 years ago 2
THANKS FOR TELLING ME
Kdawg195 4 years ago
did they fire the cannons like that? or is just for camera?
hyrocket 4 years ago
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse." -John Stewart Mill. Almost all the wars the US fought in the last 60 years were to prevent greater catastrophes. If you seriously doubt that, than go ask some South Vietnamese what happened to their families after the war, and put yourself in their shoes.
mhesi 4 years ago
i'm definitely sure that Irak was a better place to live, (just slightly better), but better when Sadam Husein was the dictator ruling that country than now, where every day dies huge amount of people and no better situation is coming... and i really doubt any conflict could mend something better than words and acts.
alvarokas 4 years ago
So what if it was a better place to live before the war. Who's fault is it that the place is riddled with Sectarian strife, with thousands dying every month? Not ours. Yes, shia muslims want democracy, with themselves in charge, as do the Sunnis, but they do not want to peacefully coexist. That's their problem, and only they can fix that.
mhesi 4 years ago
finally, a man who undesrstands somwthing.
boynamedblue 4 years ago
The ONLY reason Europeans (except the brits) are not involved in foreign wars is because their militaries lack the capabilties to do so. The combined EU military budget is half that of the U.S., yet their power projection capabilities re at 5% of the US. What happens when you have something like Bosnia again and the US doesn't feel like moving your militaries around for you?
mhesi 4 years ago
interesting point. Though I don't know how much most EU nations would rather rely on either the UN or NATO to deal with and/or contain-prevent foreign skirmishes or wars. Other than Iraq, nations such as Italy and Denmark have sent a small number of forces to Afghanistan, Somalia and Ruwanda. Though not a large contingent especially in the battle field, those two nations play a role with peacekeeping and vital information
ComeStains 4 years ago
What Europeans call peacekeeping in Afghanistan is sitting in safe FOB's sipping coffee while the rest of the country goes to hell. Rwanda, aren't they a little late? And as for Somalia, the news I see everyday of that place is uncontested proof that peace is the last thing those people want. The peacekeepers job is to hold a gun and look scary. The warfighters job is to kill those who disrupt the peace.
mhesi 4 years ago
5 or 6 hours long but it's still very good.
aceofhicks 4 years ago
right!!
Rorynster 4 years ago
General Hancock is the best
Rorynster 4 years ago
north american should learn some of the rest of the world history... then you'll realize about how young your history is and how much you need to learn
alvarokas 4 years ago
What do we need to learn from Europeans alvarokas? How to kill eachother throughout most of our history. Remember, we left the place for a reason...
mhesi 4 years ago
exactly. To not start wars all over the world as europeans did in the past,... now north americans keep fighting all over the world, so, you didn't learnt anything.
alvarokas 4 years ago 2
Yeah, we kind of have a tendency to fight back when attacked. And if I recall if it weren't for Americans and Canadians fighting halfway around the world when they didn'thalf to, Europeans would be living in either a Nazi or Communist Russia totalitarian state.
mhesi 4 years ago
it's alright living in a dream, americans attack first and then ask... Irak, Afganistan, Corea, Vietnam,... just Japan attacked first and americans used the most terrible weapon the man could invent,... fighting in the 2nd WW and forgeting about a dictatorship in Spain... that wasn't help, americans fought that war because of the global economy that germany could took control, so ... amercan's couldn't admit others as world leaders XD ... remember the cold war...
alvarokas 4 years ago
Afghanistan; the people responsible for attacking our country were being harbored there. Korea, North Korea invades South Korea, US military invention keeps South from becoming a dark and dreary communist dictatorship that now keeps North Korea among the poorest and most oppressed people on Earth. After the US left South Vietnam, the NVA moved in and it was a bloodbath. Iraq, God forbid, we removed a dictator. It just seems that every Iraqi wants to take Saddam's place.
mhesi 4 years ago
Hahaha why did i have a feeling that, that would be your reply?, still the same old, but dont become more true by repeating it, US & Canada diddent go into the war for my sake or Europe´s sake, but for its own security, if Hitler had taken the USSR, and Japan all of Asia?, hmmmm wonder who they would go after next???? The North or South Pole?, nah could be the USA;-)
Anfield4Ever 4 years ago 2
well, i could agree with that :D
alvarokas 4 years ago
Oh, so the mighty German Wehrmacht would have crossed the Atlantic to attack the North Americans. The Wehrmacht at it's peak didn't even have the capability to invade the UK, and you want me to believe they were ready to cross the Atlantic? You do realise that such is a logistical impossibility for even the US military today do you not? What would have ensued is a long cold war. Besides, North and South America had more resources than the whole of Eurasia combined.
mhesi 4 years ago
You and others won the war, we won the peace, thats much more difficult, a leason you could learn from us when one think of the war in Iraq, a war Bush claimed were finished the 1st.of May what year was it lol?, when is the peace won ehehehe?
Anfield4Ever 4 years ago
only dead men earn the peace :D
alvarokas 4 years ago
If I recall alvarokas, Spain had it's own civil war in the 1930's did it not? Funny how you slate the US for fighting a war that happened over 150 years ago when your civil war was considerably closer to today.
mhesi 4 years ago
i'm not justifiying a civil war, ours was the worst thing that could happen, that's why i call to american people to not feeling alright with things earned by killing people at war. Spain is not fighting against others, americans are always at war, from 1942 to 2007 fighting... that's awful.
alvarokas 4 years ago
The peace cannot be won by the U.S. Army. Any military that calls itself a peacekeeping force is setting itself up for failure. How can you keep the peace in Iraq when all the Iraqis want to do is kill eachother? Only the Iraqis can "keep the peace".
mhesi 4 years ago
So well said alvarokas;-)
Anfield4Ever 4 years ago
this
Rorynster 4 years ago
tis is my favourite film
Rorynster 4 years ago
also according to records Lee would have won the war had Ulysses not shown up to fight. also the loss of General Jackson didnt help either and with reinforcements scattered as they were it was impossible to recover. thats why they consider Ulysses as "the only man capable of matching the wits of Lee.... the 2 finest generals of the Civil War."
youarc321 4 years ago
No doubt Lee was the greatest general of the civil war, probably one of the greatest of all times. But he too could make mistakes, There is no such thing as a perfect commander.
mhesi 4 years ago 2
I'd say Eisenhower was the greatest general but general Lee & general Eisenhower are smiler.
aceofhicks 4 years ago
Ahh you forget The Rock of Chickamuaga, George Thomas. Grant and Sherman were quoted as saying he was one of the best, if not the best of the war. It was because he was a Virginian that he was held back for so long.
Shinyboot 4 years ago
thanks
aceofhicks 4 years ago
"Man all those cannon on that spot, thats overkill."
That was actually the largest artillery barrage ever on North American soil.
Unfortunately, they overshot the Union lines.
BattleReb 4 years ago
Unfortunately?????????????????
aceofhicks 4 years ago
Yes, unfortunately.
If the South had won at Gettysburg, the war would probably have come to a much sooner end, possibly within a month, thereby saving about 200,000 more white people their lives.
And having the South as an independent nation would not be bad, as it's slavery would have died out with a couple decades anyway.
BattleReb 4 years ago
ok.
aceofhicks 4 years ago
Man all those cannon on that spot, thats overkill.
Spartanz1170 4 years ago
Lee's plan was to blast the bajeezus out of the center of the line and try and break it with a frontal assault.
patsfreak 4 years ago
oddly similar to Napoleons plan at Waterloo. Lee should have taken lessons.
mhesi 4 years ago 3
lee did take lessons. he graduated at the top of his class at West Point. Also read his biography it says that at this battle he realized "the plans and assault itself seemed so similar to Napoleons plans at waterloo that I could of acted as if it happened yesterday. What fools we have been!" Lee wasnt recognized as the South's greatest general because of nothing.
youarc321 4 years ago
Maybe a guilty pleasure, but one of my most favorite war epics ever. Perhaps somewhat lethargic towards the end, and the flagwaving music gets over played, but the action, the performances, the pageantry, and keen depiction of the battle save that for me.
Flowbee79 4 years ago
One thing bugs me though...
The movie portrays the Union as answering the Fire towards the Confederates, the fact is that the Union only fired in the beginning of the bombardment, then they stopped, leading the Confederates to believe that they had destroyed the Unoin Artillery, they charged, and were off course meat by Canister ands volleyfire, poor things...
LordJespersen 4 years ago
I Just love the Union Generals Response when asked to get down...
"There are times when a corps commanders life doesn't count"
Beautiful
LordJespersen 4 years ago
Yeah Hancock was a great leader, he really did say that too.
Also, that's Ken Burns telling him to get down :)
VMask1976 4 years ago 3
Any one wanting to have a go at the Civil war can join a reencatment society, it's great fun, and quite interesting to try it out for you self, live the life, fell the feelings, see the sights, hear the shots, fire the weapons, it very fascinating...
LordJespersen 4 years ago
my bad *2 governments are not gonna split and form*
youarc321 4 years ago
also. people who still call themselves a yank or rebel please just....stop.....ok when civilians pick up guns under the old flags and shoot each other in massive waves of thousands upon thousands then you can go ahead and call yourself that.....ok cuz the civil war was over long time ago and no matter what you call yourself or what side your for....that cursed war aint starting up again. 2 governments are gonna split and form again and a massacre of thousands is not happenin
youarc321 4 years ago
grant respected bravery. *not to defend sides or offend others here* the north had more tendancy to let men die as men. the south was more into fighting them until they fled and when they did flee they would chase em down like dogs until they were trapped or obliterated. anyone who has seen this movie will know about a commander whos entire battallion of men was slaughtered
youarc321 4 years ago
I love this movie best war film ever made why did the prequel suck
IainDensmore 4 years ago
The South will rise again!
pawel0727 4 years ago
GLORY for the Union trups!
Cergoeli 4 years ago
I wanna see alot of rebs dropping dead!!
benzinite 4 years ago
Reb??....you mean my family??
fuck you Benzinite
AlexReb012092 4 years ago
FUCK YOU!! YOU SOUTHERN CUNT!!
benzinite 4 years ago
FUCK YOU!!!! Liberal Fagot
AlexReb012092 4 years ago
YEAH WHATEVER ASSHOLE!!
benzinite 4 years ago
Fucking yankee idiots
AlexReb012092 4 years ago
Shut the fuck up rebel trash!!
benzinite 4 years ago
hey at least we had the guts to stand up to you asshole yankee all you do is burn the American flag and call bush a nazi
AlexReb012092 4 years ago
Whatever, look lets stop beefing with each other because it's not cool.
benzinite 4 years ago
talking about watching Americans die anit cool either c ya
AlexReb012092 4 years ago
Whatever dude it's your loss.
benzinite 4 years ago
oh its not a loss if thats what you wanna see
but before I go get ready because the South is starting to rise again
AlexReb012092 4 years ago
For the love of god shut the fuck up!!
benzinite 4 years ago
I thought you were gonna shut your yankee ass don't reply and I'll shut up
AlexReb012092 4 years ago
You Southern guys think your so tough don't you?! well let me tell you something you ain't shit!! you uneducated prick!!
benzinite 4 years ago
hey fucker why don't you do somthing useful by shuting the fuck up
AlexReb012092 4 years ago
I don't think so asshole! it's you who needs to shut the fuck up.
benzinite 4 years ago
Well then this is gonnatake a while cause I don't give up bitch
AlexReb012092 4 years ago
I'll stop giving you shit after you stop
AlexReb012092 4 years ago
Fine!! I've stopped now stop.
benzinite 4 years ago
ok then I'll stop
c ya
AlexReb012092 4 years ago
let me just ask if your not a yankee why did you say you wanna see dead rebs?
AlexReb012092 4 years ago
thats not what offended me that you wanted your people you win it's that you said you wanna see dead rebs that offended me
AlexReb012092 4 years ago
I understand why you were mad now.
benzinite 4 years ago
ok then truce?
AlexReb012092 4 years ago
Whats thats supposed to mean?
benzinite 4 years ago
What offended me was when you said F..k You Benzinite.
benzinite 4 years ago