2 Scenes from the movie: Gettysburg

Scene of speech made by Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain and departure of the whole his regiment to the battle of Gettysburg.

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[Mulkey40]

Chamberlain was the finest example fo the American Citizen Soldier. A professor. Gone to way. Wins the Medal of Honor. 4 term governor of Maine after the war. President of Bowdoin College, where he teaches every subject but mathematics. His order of the bayonet charge on Little Round Top signals the highwater mark of the Confederacy, and the charge signals the beginning of the end of the Civil War. A great man, his regiment fought with the Souls of Lions. Proud to be from the same country.

[Phantomregiment8]

One of my favorite movies of all time.

This movie proves you don't need gruesome violence, missing limbs, decapitated bodies, etc, to make a good war movie.

This speech is one of my favorite speeches of all time.

[theone2225]

Love this movie..... cant even begin to imagine what it would be like to live during the Civil War and possibly see this going on.

[wadens1]

@Mulkey40 the high water mark was when pickett led the charge on semminary ridge

[Mahbu]

@CapitalSuits

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[CapitalSuits]

@Mahbu

Ain't no shame, since we let you win on account of us getting tired of always beating ya  =)

[CapitalSuits]

What is the tune they are marching to near the end?

[Mahbu]

@zyzor

I know. It's actually kind of silly that he's vilified by generations who are far removed. But I understand why it happens. He humiliated the South and there was no way to save face from it so they simply turn him into this exaggerated vile cur that they can pile all their shame on to.

[zyzor]

@Mahbu Sherman to this day is considered a villain in the south and is greatly despised by those who have confederate ancestors.

[MrJeefry1]

@Civilwar555 Um.. Lee's men DID burn property and pillage and extort cash from a number of town coffers while in PA. They also chased down and sent over 200 free blacks back into slavery. Sherman's March To The Sea probably ended the war a year earlier and saved thousands of lives. War is all hell, as Sherman said.

[Mahbu]

@Mahbu

Lee could not have done the same. The circumstances and abilities are entirely different. If Lee had seriously invaded the North, he would've galvanized the Northern war effort (not to mention the two times he tried were pushed back) and given Lincoln the ammunition to silence his critics and those seeking to appease the south.

[Mahbu]

@Mahbu

This is going to sound weird, because I don't want to give the impression it's a small event by any means (a great deal of infrastructure and resources were destroyed or consumed including cotton and rail road tracks) but the south greatly exaggerates the events. For starters, the march did not target civilians. It, as I've said before, it attacked infrastructure/industry and surplus.