Gettysburg Soundtrack: Kathleen Mavourneen

Composed by Randy Edelman 1993

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[lomax343]

Curious that all Confederate generals were the same height.

[Mast3rFr3aky]

Hmmm, didn't notice that.

[MaryToddLincoln65]

Kathleen mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking...

The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill...

...It may be for years and it may be forever...

God bless Win and Lo. :(

[KNS1996DFS]

Win, if I ever raise my hand against you... may God strike me dead!

[Ottoman1337]

@Manwithamission1972

Such a useless slaughter that battle was, for both sides. Could've been avoided so easily. Tragic that the battlefield is in such a lacking state of preservation. Still, probably my favorite out there though, the march into town was much longer and a much more desperate situation than Pickett's at Gettysburg!

[ragnor56]

Fine actor was Richard Jordan...like all those who have gone before him their epitaph should read.. I gave everything & took nothing back except the pleasure I gave to others......god bless & rest in peace for your duty is done the war is over ............

[ijnfleetadmiral]

@KNS1996DFS Still get teary-eyed every time I watch that scene...what made this film even more poignant was that it was Richard Jordan's last.

[FillianJPruscht]

@KNS1996DFS One of the world's greatest ironies.

[14921960]

@lomax343 It appears that Robert E. Lee is depicted as taller than any other sesesh general.

[anotherluckyone]

For the record, Randy Edelman did not compose Kathleen Mavourneen. It's an old song from the 1830's. All credit to Edelman though for great music for this movie.

[progressiverebel]

Yet, my Great Grandma didn't think so, she hated the Yankees till her death. One /two of her brothers died in the war and the family farm/plantation was burned, allegedly by Shermans men, early in the War. The Confederate women knew how to hate and they remembered. When World War 1 came around, cousin Henry joined the US Army and had has hide skinned for wearing that Yankee uniforme to her house. The same happened to Harry Truman.

[Shagrat65]

@progressiverebel : Very true mate. Sherman gave Johnston's captured troops supplies as they were near starvation, he didn't forget that and he and Sherman became great friends visiting each other after the war. Johnston was a real forgotton hero of the war imo, real sad how he died, the man's code of honour and intergirty could never really be questioned imo

[progressiverebel]

@c44LuWanda After signing the Armistice, Grant and Longsteet went to play cards. Some of these men were friends for life. and some of the enemies became friends. Joe Johnston at Tecumsah Shermans funeral went bareheaded in bad weather and was advise to put his hat on. He said something to the effect that if the circumstances were reversed that Sherman would not have his hat on. He died about 10 days later of pneumonia.

Johnson was a hell of a guy, so was Sherman.

[progressiverebel]

@lomax343 . Nope the picture make it clear that Lee was just a bit little taller. But its the artist, I know that some of the Generals were shorter. Marmaduke for one. Notice that Bragg is in the back rank with Jubal Early and I can't tell which is Peter Longstreet. I also don't see Sideney Johnston.?