Gettysburg movie - Pickett's Charge end.wmv

From the film "Gettysburg" - this is the end of Pickett's Charge (the rest is already posted by others). In memory of Richard Jordan (Gen. Armistead), who died before the film's release, here are his final scenes.

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• Richard Jordan
• General Lewis A. Armistead
• Civil War

[MrSunlander]

Richard Jordan's loss was just as sad and heroic as the spirit of this charge. What a marverlous man and American Armistead was, and selecting Jordan to portray him was just so as well......

[rob9641]

@MrSunlander Jordan committed to play Armistead almost as soon as Maxwell bought the rights, back in the 1970s, and Maxwell wrote the part for Jordan to pla y it. Jordan was the only actor in the film to stick with it all the way thru, even though he was really busy when they filmed this (Jordan made 7 or 8 films in the last 3-4 years of his life and was working on another - The Fugitive - when he got too sick).

[redsoul888]

I wonder how many people actually were needed for this movie.

[rob9641]

@redsoul888 I think they had 5000 or so in the Pickett's Charge panorama scenes.

[MWM1978]

And you all talk like this was the ONLY action of that day, due to this movie alot of people forget there was a second part to this attack and that was Jeb Stuarts Calvary attack on the rear of the same place that was stalled and turned back by the union calvary lead by Gen, Custer, not to mention the Confederates mis judging of cannon shot that over shot the unionposition, so really the attack failed for more than just Lees over confidence.

[rob9641]

@MWM1978 There was also a 7-hour battle at Culp's Hill in the morning that people forget, but it's not the movie's fault. Pickett's Charge has dominated attention since the day it happened. People always remember grand finales.

[TOCR815]

I'm proud of both my Union and Confederate ancestors. A stronger America was born from this terrible conflict.

[NoobSnoopy]

- goes to play Empire Total war -

[wvu3]

@sargeanb Not taking the high ground from the beginning may have cost the Confederacy the entire war.

[sargeanb]

@rob9641 The Battle of Gettysburg was decided on day 1, not on day 2 or 3. That line was not going to be broken.

[AUG351]

@1101millie97 But I bet they would just make it with all CGI but there is going to be a new HBO series called To Appomattox and is going to be about the whole story of the Civil War and the life of the generals aswell as many other battles that took place. I hope they really show the battles after Gettysburg that were some of the bloodiest fought in the war like the Wilderness, Sposylvania, and Petersburg.

[Ponyboy8877]

@SupernalOne More than likely underfed. :)

[1101millie97]

I am hoping a new Gettysburg movie will come out -and this time with better acting and more realistic scenes, such that if the spirits of those who actually fought there were watching these actors on the battlefield, it would look familiar to them.

[MrJamesLongstreet]

Lewis Armistead = Badass!!!

[MrJamesLongstreet]

Amazing how God damn foolish this charge was on behalf of general Lee! God damn it! This is the kind of strategy that is great if you want to slaughter HELL OF A LOT of soldiers in shortest possible time...General Lee should have been court-martialed for this!

[agrigoat]

@maroonranger42 Then get murdered for their trouble in this clip!

[maroonranger42]

i love how the union took care of injured confeterate troops