"Wicked Spring" Wilderness battle in Civil War film

http://www.lionheart-filmworks.com - http://www.wickedspringmovie.com. Battle of the Wilderness scenes near the beginning of the film, which introduces the audience to the main characters in the film, and how they become seperated from their units.

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[lagoonguy]

excellent battle scene - the director clearly shines here. Wasn't so much of a fan of the story itself, but I give 5 stars to that battle scene. I'm a reencator and am making a short film with a tiny battle scene - the battle isn't the focus, but i'm definitely taking notes on how this was shot. very well done. Salute!

[AUG351]

@slideharp1 Yeah, another change was building more dirt forts with dirt walls like Fort Donelson, Henry, or Fort Rosecrants. Most had walls about 20 or 30 ft high with abbatis and wooden stakes in front or in ditches filled with water infront of the walls, aswell as cannons with interlocking fire and firing canister. They were allot more effective than the stone forts because rifles guns could shoot right through the stone walls.

[slideharp1]

@AUG351 Robt.E.Lee was a pioneer of trench/earthworks - and was initially given a good deal of mocking (behind his back of course), but he'd come from the Engineer Corps and knew what he was doing. His innovations were later well appreciated - tho' it ultimately led, fifty-some years later, to the hideous and endless WWI stalemate of two long lines of trenches facing each other for months on end whilst each killed several thousand of the other per week.

[AUG351]

@slideharp1 Well yeah they didn't want them using up all their ammunition which is also the reason why many soldiers in the Spanish American war were equiped with breech loading springfields when the Spanish forces were armed with the bolt action Mauser model 1893. Although many new tactics did develop in the Civil War like more use of skirmishers and trenches. Soldiers would dig trenches where ever possible and lay down for cover if in formation.

[JamesADempsey]

@slideharp1 great book I loved it.

[slideharp1]

@inkey2 Another example is parachutes. During WWI, the Royal Flying Corps fighters were open topped machine gun turrets mounted on a bi-plane. The young pilots had asked for parachutes like the Germans already had. The reply was as expected; with the parachute option, a pilot was more likely to bail out than fight the enemy. The result being that a pilot would jump from a burning plane whilst afire himself - straight to his death. When you're on fire, that's what you do.

[slideharp1]

@inkey2 Yes, it happens all the time. Tactics are always having to catch up with new weapons and the people who decide on those tactics are 'old soldiers' who fought in previous wars. Spencers, Sharps and basic breach loaders were held back prob'ly to keep the war from getting out of hand - that's the real 'insanity' of war. It's a business. And a paradox also....wars foster new ways of killing with technological leaps and bounds, then it screws things up with unknown factors (for some).

[inkey2]

@slideharp1 ....actually.....if they even had better guns that were available at that time things could have been drastically different......like a spencer or henry repeating rifle. I once read that who ever was in charge of what guns the union used had this to say, I am paraphrasing it......"I don't want them to have repeating rifles because they won't aim as carefully and make each shot count".....now is that insanity or what?.....has anyone else ever heard this?

[slideharp1]

@inkey2 In one of the Civil War mags I used to get in New Orleans, there was a review of a novel that used that exact premise. I think it was Gettysburg and Lee had somehow received a few cases of modern sub-machine guns from the future! - this won the war, natch. No, I didn't read the book......love to see the movie, tho'.

[slideharp1]

"Wicked Spring is available on DVD. Has been for 1-2 years.