The Making of "Gettysburg" (w/edits) Martin Sheen,Tom Berenger,Jeff Daniels,Stephen Lang,Sam Elliott
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- w/edits, and quite a few, but did what i could to make this smooth, most of the dialogue is still intact. just a couple lines here and there are gone, but with the edits not super noticeable. the special feature itself is fantastic, this battle was epic. The narration was excellent, the actors did a great job, and plenty of Civil War reenactors in this film. Hope you like this as much as i did. Enjoy. become a patron and support the channel ! www.patreon.com... for watching !!
I was one of the 120 mutineers from Maine. I worked mostly with Jeff Daniels. It was interesting to make a film and an honor to be part of it. The Reanactors were incredible and they lived in the field for the entire filming. Honoring the men that fought there. If anyone ever sees a cap saying the Killer Angels they were there working on the film. Before the films release it was renamed to Gettysburg.
I saw you today then! My husband and I watched the film today, July 2nd, on the anniversary of the battle(s). We usually end up watching the film at least once a year.
I insisted we visit Gettysburg a few decades back on our way to a vacation destination, and the history of the place just got into his blood and made him a bit of a Civil War buff.
The film and all you guys were just incredible.
Amazing! It's one of my all time favorite movies since childhood. Thanks for being a part of it.
That must have been exciting, i love the film, thanks for watching !! (&sharing)
My dad was an extra. He reenacts Union, but played confederate in the movie. He told me they were shorter confederate volunteers.
What's cool about your mention of the title change, is he came home with t-shirts with Killer Angels title on it. Idk if he still has it or not. I do have old t-shirts from prior reenactments from before the movie, so I don't see why he wouldn't.
That's cool you got to work so close with Jeff Daniels.
The most tearful moment in the movie for me is when General Pickett tells General Lee, "I have no Division."
me too
It's a direct quote as well.
The sound track by Randy Edelman was fantastic. Captured all the emotions of the battle.
excellent, one of the best i have heard. thanks for watching!!
My husband is a reenactor, and an extra in the movie.
And he had a great time!
It was the re-enactors whose expertise and passion made this film come to life.
One of the finest films made about American history - and a worthy realization of one of the finest books about Gettysburg - Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels.
And this summary was outstanding.
I dont think i will ever understand Picketts charge. Its mind boggling to me that Lee did a frontal assault at that time, just saying, i would maneuver , but im not Robert E Lee lol
This film ! From start to end, it is an absolute Masterpiece. All of it . Just as fine a film as I've ever seen.
I remember this being made. I worked at Arcata Grafics in Fairfield Pennsylvania and we could hear the thunder from the filming of the Cannons firing. I can only imagine the actual battle and how much louder it was. There are accounts of hearing it in Baltimore on the actual day.
York/Philadelphia PA too. These reenactors used only 40 cannon… the actual confederates on that day used over three times as many.
I can’t imagine the impact and sounds those guns had.
@@BeefCake1012the union were firing even more Cannon! 😮
One of my childhood friends was a direct descendant of Chamberlain, and still have the last name, she and her father had those same striking, large blue eyes that turn down at the edges and that strong, sharp nose, as Joshua Chamberlain did. I always found that so striking.
I was there and can be seen in this video along with soldiers of the 7th ARK. VOL. INF. Thank you for posting this video and bringing back memories.
GETTYSBURG (1993) is my favorite motion picture of all time.
I first saw this on its debut weekend while on a New Orleans vacation.
The theater was in a suburban town, Metairie; my seat close to the screen.
The story was overwhelming. Once back home I immediately saw this classic again.
This film is phenomenal. And has stood the test of time. And without the CGI and special effects many movies now require. Crucial soundtrack
At the time of this movie I was in the 3rd and 2nd Wisconsin Union Volunteers. At my Gettysburg reenactment ( 135th anniversary of the battle) I was part of the Black Hats. Loved it!
I saw Gettysburg in '92 in the theater with my father. When I was 9 years old. The whole 4 hrs had my complete attention. My father's Great Grandfather, my Great Great Grandfather Ellis W. Etters fought there at Gettysburg with the 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry. In about '93 or '94 we went to visit Gettysburg. I enjoyed it. I hope to go back one day. I wish they would remaster the film and put it in at least 4k.
Thank you, love this film & God's & General's (i'm English & in England) so was very happy to see this & it's just great. Thank's for taking the time
I just loved working on this one, my favorite so far, so full of great clips and interviews.......hollywood heaven, I saw Gods & Generals but i didnt get it cause i was working on this, and many of the same actors are in it, but i will get it next time i go on a search, hope its still there and put what i can from that up in the near future, bumming , i should have got it. no worries, probably still there. will get back to you , thanks for watching, i really appreciate the kind words. :)
I hope you do, i'd love to see that & thank you
@@chrissiepike1750 ;i got it, picked it up today, will be working on it just for you 😁
@@chrissiepike1750 dont know how much i will get, but probably similiar to gettysburg, probably 30 or more minutes if im lucky, wish me luck lol
Good luck 👍
I fought in Afghanistan and seen the buffalo. These guys had massive balls beyond my comprehension.
8:06 “look at the world falling apart” Ken Burns couldn’t have know thirty years ago when he said this that we would just substitute Ukraine for Yugoslavia (and any number of other countries) - how are we not learning from history - why are we making things worse not better - ugh - thnx for posting this documentary - haven’t seen Gettysburg (the movie) yet so this has been a good intro - Canada 🇨🇦 was working towards our Confederation in 1867 while American north and south tearing themselves apart in 1863 - probably why I didn’t get any American history except war of 1812 and WW2 - was in elementary & high school 1965 - 1979 will try and find Gettysburg online - thnx again for posting this
I'm not sure why you say that "we" would just substitute Ukraine or Yugoslavia, (I suppose as a reason for fighting?) Ukraine is fighting for its land, that has been raped and abused by Russian overloads for almost a thousand years. Yugoslavia had other problems. Yugoslavia was never, ever a complete, intact nation.
I don't know that it's a direct substitute--if anything it looks like America is falling apart as well this time, and the Union that Ken Burns celebrated is slowly tearing itself apart again.
I have friends, UK reenactors, who were there. Even today, (2023) when they talk about filming Picketts' charge, they tear up. The Confederates, when they lined up, felt the ghosts of the past. The Federals saw FAR more men than they KNEW were there! It was a very spiritual experience.
I have heard stories from reenactors claiming to see actual civil war soldier ghosts cheering them on like "go get em boys". I have heard of civil war reenactors talking to ghosts think they where just another reenactor to have them disappear when they look away for a split second.
In the early 2000s one of my students told me her father had worked as a reenactor on the film and brought in a photograph taken during shooting. It was her dad and two others posing before a wooden bridge, dressed as Union soldiers. Behind them, so faded as to almost be invisible, it was possible to see three Confederates standing together and looking straight at the camera. She told me that her father had only seen the figures when the picture had been developed (no digital cameras back then) and that there had been no one standing behind them when the picture was taken. She also told me they had camped on the battlefield for several nights during shooting and could hear the sound of large bodies of men moving about in the woods.
they were ok with it? ghosts can get a bit obstinate about things they care about.
@@pezpengy9308 They didn't feel any negative energy from them. I think they were pleased not to be forgotten.
yay! the folks still hanging out on the missouri are kind of the same way.@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars
I carried the Virginia colors over the angle in two takes; a rifle butt to the face took me clean off my feet in one of those takes. The moment you hit the ground piles of men were falling and trampling over top of you. That day was a melee. I was a few months shy of my 18th birthday. These were the close up scenes where Armistead goes over the wall. This was probably one of the greatest adventures of my life.
It’s one of the best civil war movies I’ve seen
Brilliant documentary about the making of a brilliant movie.
One of the finest movies ever made - I have watched it 6 times !!
Lee cleaved to the tactics of the Napoleonic Wars. It worked in slashing, fast battles, but was a disaster when an enemy held better ground. He was an Engineer, had some experience commanding cavalry units, but was unable to adapt to situations or believe he was wrong. The war was lost for the South before any battle had been fought. As a native Texan, with ancestors that fought mainly for the South, and were compelled to fight a war they didn't believe in to begin with... Wealthy, slave holding Southerners decimated their own States out of economic greed and misplaced beliefs. I'm seeing similar things play out today in the modern Texas secessionist movement... a minority trying to force the people into something none of the majority want.
thanks for the comment, its a good one ! Rock on :)
The Battle of South Mountain and the Battle of Antietam showed that if Lee tried to go on the offensive in the north, he got his butt kicked. So he might have known what was waiting for him at Gettysburg. But the first day of action was confusing but overall a victory for Lee. So perhaps he got over-confident and distracted.
This has to be one of the greatest movies iv ever seen .. The actors made it fantastic really amazing , i am only sadd i could not fined the extended verson .. i felt so sorry for Longstreet he try so hard to help lee but. still he was the loyalist of lees command
A guy I knew participated in a anniversary re-enactment back then and told me that he was marching across a field in an attack and the turnout that year was one of the largest to date almost as many as the Gettysburg filming. They were so caught up in the event that when he informed his officer that all their superiors were killed or wounded and he had to take the attack forward the guy turned to him, wide eyed and sweating and said "Oh shit!"
For those of you intending to visit Gettysburg, DO IT! And walk Pickett’s charge. I did it on the 150th anniversary and the emotional experience has never left me.
It was SO GOOD to hear Shelby Foote's voice again.
God bless your memory and God rest your souls, Shelby Foote and Brian Pohanka.😢😢😢😢
Probably the best film showing the Civil War and the people involved. Gettysburg was a turning point during the Civil War.
Who edited this Helen Keller🤷🏻
The best American war story ever that is NEVER played on network television or cable or streaming…except for purchase
Killer Angels is in my top 3/4 books of all time…the entire series is fantastic
Just before he died, Kevin Conway played in an episode of NCIS as a Pearl Harbor survivor who felt he wasn't getting his due from the V.A.(at least I think that was the plot line).
Just like portraying Kilrain in this movie, he was EXCELLENT in his NCIS role.😊😊😊😊
With all due respect to our American warriors in all of this Nation's wars,the Civil War Soldiers,North and South,were the toughest Gits this Nation has ever produced.
Those Guys marched all night and fought all day.Bad Hombres.May they all R.I.P.
indeed, they were a different breed, super brave. Heroes to there sides.
One of the best war movies ever made and one that’s highly underrated still today.
Today’s war movies are nothing but overblown digital graphics/CGI explosions, weak dialogue and no emotional connections to help emphasize the full impact of the conflicts and men they’re portraying. The only “good” war movies I have seen in recent years were “Hacksaw Ridge” and “Free State of Jones”.
Would love to see some movies made about the Harlem Hellfighters of WWI and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team of WWII.
In the months before Gettysburg, Lee repeatedly wrote Confederate President Jefferson Davis that, in his opinion, due to the growing disparity between the Confederacies's ability to re-supply its men and the Union’s ability to do so,
"military victory" against the North was
"no longer possible".
The only hope he wrote was Propaganda.
"If I can whip the North on its own soil, the Northern Peace Party would demand settlement on terms favorable to the Confederacy."
"Under these circumstances, we should neglect no honorable means of dividing and weakening our enemies."
wrote Lee to Davis.
"We must give all the encouragement we can, consistently with the truth, to the rising peace party of the North."
The obvious problem with that was that half of the "Peace Party" wanted the southern states to return to the Union. To this, Lee wrote to Davis saying the South should not make
"nice distinctions."
"When peace is proposed to us it will be time enough to discuss its terms."
Lee's plans for that Propaganda victory "on Northern soil" were completed by June 1863 and on the 3rd of June, Lee began to move his Army northward into Union territory.
The War, the Confederates thought in 1861, would not last more than a year, as such, they did not save up stores for a prolonged conflict and it had been showing since early 1862.
Lee was constantly dealing with shortages of supplies, food, and men. In March of 1862, less than a year since the war began, Lee wrote James Seddon, the Secretary of War
"Let the State authorities take the matter in hand, and see that no man able to bear arms be allowed to evade his duty."
"Let every effort be made, every means be employed, to fill and maintain the ranks of our armies, until God, in His mercy, shall bless us with the establishment of our independence."
Whatever you may think of Lee, he endured the same suffering as his men. He refused luxuries and ate nearly as little as his men did. While his tent was an ordinary officer’s tent, drafty and wet.
As Lee had too few men to grant furloughs to his Army, he never took one. He even refused a new uniform, even the new sash his wife sent him.
"My old blue will serve me yet awhile."
he wrote back to his wife Mary.
Lee did not believe that he would survive the war, and he did not want the papers saying he was found dead in a high style. He was he said,
"just a soldier".
He would lead by example, and in response, Mary, like her husband, did as well.
By late March 1862, Lee was almost yelling in his letters to Seddon.
"My soldier's daily ration is only 18 ounces of flour, 4 ounces of bacon, of indifferent quality, with occasionally supplies of rice, sugar, or molasses."
Scurvy had become a problem as well and there was no medicine nor lemons to combat it. Scrounging for food was the Army's #1 activity and there was never enough food when they could find it. The North, on the other hand, suffered a wealth of supplies.
The North had fully reordered its great manufacturing sectors to supply war goods. The Union's soldiers had an embarrassment of riches. So much so that soldiers literally tossed away any weight that they did not think was absolutely essential.
Come the Spring, Winter coats littered the roadsides on which they marched. They knew that come the fall they would get new ones.
Fry pans, tin plates?
"Away with you!"
They used their canteen halves for pan and plate.
This while some Confederate soldiers were without boots.
In the Western Theatre, which did not get the attention of the treasury that Lee's forces did, it was even worse. Some Southern soldiers in the Army of Tennessee were fighting with old style Flintlocks rather than modern percussion cap rifles. These were useless when it rained as the pan got wet and soaked their powder.
More important to the Army itself was that Lee could see that his army was growing smaller while the North's army was growing larger. As he laid out his plans for his second invasion of the North, Lee knew he would never be able to front an army of this size again, while the North would never have an army this small again.
This whipping on Northern soil he knew he needed to inflict, was going to be the last truly large fighting force Lee would ever have.
176 cannons were gathered up by Lee and when they opened up on the center of the Union line on July 3rd (day 3, Picket’s Charge), it was the largest artillery barrage of the war. But a shortage of powder and cannonball helped to defeat its intended effect… That, and the Devil's own idea that came to General Hunt, head of the Union's Artillery.
Generals Meade, and Hunt, suspected the attack on the center after the failed attacks on the flanks on day 2. Gen. Hunt, clever devil that he was, ordered his cannon to remain silent for the first 15 minutes of the barrage. Then he only ordered a third of his guns to fire back. This led Lee to think that his artillery barrage had knocked out the majority of Hunt's guns.
It was a brilliant feint which had the proper effect upon Lee's mind. Thinking that most of the Union's guns were destroyed Lee ordered Picket's men forward.
As we know, most of the Confederate men never got close to the Union’s lines that afternoon. Only at the bend in the Union's line known as "The Angle", did Gen Armistead's Corps engage the Union at close quarters fighting, but Northern reinforcements quickly arrived.
Seconds after Armistead ordered his men to turn the Union cannon around to use on the Union itself, he found that they were all empty. All the canister shots had already been fired into his men.
Of the first volley fired by the newly arrived Union reinforcements to The Angle, three musket balls found the General's chest and Armistead fell dead and with him the dreams of the Confederacy. The War was now effectively over. It was only a matter of the South facing up to the fact.
Many, including myself, would say the turning point, the beginning of the end, occurred the previous spring of 1862 at Malvern Hill on July 1st, the last day of the Seven Days Campaign.
Lee began the battle with 52,000 men but left more than 22,000 dead on the battlefield when it was over. Southern newspapers, shocked at the number of the dead, called Lee a "butcher" and "incompetent".
So did General D. H. Hill, who was the only Confederate officer who openly criticized his fellow officers. He openly stated Lee had blundered the management of the Campaign. To whit Lee responded by informing Jefferson Davis that Hill was not up to his assignment. A Major General at the start of the Seven Days Campaign, he was demoted to lieutenant General and reassigned to the Western theatre. While Davis denied all future promotions to Hill.
Of the Battle, which Gen. Hill had forcefully urged Lee not to make, Hill publicly called it not war but "murder".
Lee's failure at Gettysburg was in part a well-played feint by Gen. Hunt, but regardless, this battle Lee knew, was the last hope. He had to attack. Too many men had already died, men he knew he would never replace. Lee's back was against the wall, Lee had to fight, so he gambled, and lost.
Thank you for an excellent summary.
1 of greatest war movies ever filmed the all Actors played their parts like Oscar winners what a movie this is
I loved this movie
Many Thanks🇬🇧
your welcome !! thanks for watching !
Is this the whole documentary…it’s good but it seems like they cut some stuff out to make it shorter
The Killer Angel's was slated to be a TV Mini Series. Almost like Band of Brothers. Ted Turner thought it would do well as a major Motion Picture. It was edited for the big screen. Turner then turned it back to the Mini Series for TV Broadcast.
The Combat scenes are top notch. Some of the dialogue didn't need to be there.
And the makeup crew gets heat for making the worst looking facial hair.
I was there. 3rd NJ Volunteers
I'm sure it was a highlight of your life! I participated in the "North and South" miniseries, book 1, the Battle of Churubusco scene where Orry Main (Patrick Swayze) is hit by a shell. Spent a week in Mississippi running a gun and portraying various Mexican army soldier depictions. I'll never forget it, but you were on THE actual ground. That had to have a lasting impact on you.
@@briand4000 it did. I "borrowed" some props, plastic bayonet and simple 4 inch round styrofoam ball which was painted black to simulate a cannon ball. Ted Turner had beer tents for the extras and Jane Fonda visited the set once. That wasn't popular. The crew was awesome and the makeup department was fantastic. There were life size props of dead horses with caro syrup which attracted flies. I still have some photos and my original screen used uniform, and the original production notes which we were given by the production company. Great memories. Glad you had some too.
Amazing that Ted Turner and Jane Fonda stayed married as long as they did. Turner was always a bit of a leftist rebel though despite making this patriotic movie.
Lee left the union in command of the field at Sharpsburg.
I loved Steven Lang in Gods and Generals, who portrayed Stonewall Jackson. He had such a light touch with the character. Too bad the hair and makeup folks didn't have such light touches.
Hershey PA. Ghosts really exist.
at Gettysburg they sure do, thanks for watching!
I was in this movie
Read the book “Killer Angels” to be illuminated with this point in history
Agreed. Shaara wrote a masterpiece; the film brought it to life.
Amazing film.
I do not wanna make this charge I dont see how it can succeed I wouldnt make it now but General Lee expects and demands it
General James Longstreet
Confederate Army
I was in the movie GETTYSBURG as an extra...we played both confederate and union soldiers in the Pickett's Charge scenes.
Great Movie !
Its sad they never produced the 3RD movie in the trilogy...LAST FULL MEASURE! Love both Gettysburg & Gods and Generals.
19:56 remarkable
Some years ago, I read that the casualty total(620,000) wasn't accurate.
I read that it's ACTUALLY between 2 TO 3.MILLION!!
I'm not sure about the Union side, but, some Confederate units UNDERREPORTED their losses so that the unit commander didn't lose his command.😢😢😢😮😮😮
Do you experts Chamberlin was right in saying "if we loose this fight we loose the war"?????
I think Shelby Foote said it best that the Union fought with one hand tied behind its back for most of the war due to incompetent generals and political pressure. A defeat at Gettysburg would have released that other arm.
Losing the battle and retreating in good order would not have lost the war for the Union. Lee's only hope of ending the war with this fight was to destroy the Union army and knock it off the map, allowing him to convincingly threaten Harrisburg, Philadelphia, or Washington. With veteran Union troops, 7 intact army corps, and a bunch of quality corps and division commanders, that was not going to happen. Add Grant's capture of Vicksburg and the war goes on, although Lincoln would have been on political thin ice for a while.
@grizz2532 Ha! What a load of crap.
Ken Burns is so unbelievable. Is he 14 years old? Maybe it's the Monkees hairdo.
That Civil War series of his was nothing short of pro Union propaganda and lies aimed at discrediting the South He shoulda kept his big lying Yankee mouth shut
7:52 😂🤣Ken Burns certainly has good genes 🤣😂
@@ej3016 not really
We're is the boy general audie Armstrong Custer is actually fought in this very famous battlefield? Audie is his nickname because his brothers couldn't pronounce his name. Custer actually won the battlefield but he clearly defeated at infamous of the little bighorn victory June 25,1876. Against the Lakota sioux and Cheyenne warriors who fierce fighting warriors at that time period.
They couldn’t include everyone now could they?
Custer was the first an only major general to take the enemies southern flag away from the defeated general Lee's confederate army during the bloody battlefield scene very seriously! That should been put in the movie! Have a great fabulous wonderful day.
Not sure what you’re talking about, and Custer had just been promoted to Brigadier General right before the battle of Gettysburg
@@McNair39thNC that's the reason why he permitted to become a great general. But differently not during the Indian wars of the west during the late 1860 and 1870's. He meet his final conflict of defeat!
Custer's fight was quite far to the east of the main battlefield, in the East Cavalry Field. As cavalry, he was not involved in the pivotal events on the ridges--although he and the other cavalry did stop Stuart from hitting the Union in the rear. And there was enough to show in the movie without also showing the somewhat less consequential cavalry fight.
Pony Boy played Tom Chamberlain
Can anybody find me this part of the soundtrack anywhere? 16:14 to 17:02
It took some digging, but I believe it must be an excerpt from the piece titled "Lee at Twilight."
I should say, from 16:34 onward is certainly from "Lee at Twilight"
Was Ken Burns born without an adam's apple?
I know that guy standing at 26:24
Ganz großes Kino!
Buford deserves the CMH.
January 6th Washington needed canister shot.
Yes. To get rid of Ray Epps & other FBI infiltrators
a great film the only thing i couldnt understand when the confederate army walked across the fields into cannon fire surely the officer knew it was suicide and a mass slaughter of men was a brilliant film to watch im from liverpool england
Very poor editing, I found it incomplete, hurriedly done, and choppy in many parts. In the main, it was more of an explanation, with small pieces of actual discussion of the making of the movie. Parts of it were okay, but other parts were choppy.
Read above comment to learn why: the short answer? UA-cam demanded it be done that way otherwise it wouldn't have been allowed to broadcast.
lol how the skipped the whole British influence of things......
Should of had more practical effects in the way of bits of people getting blown off and squibs
Whoever edited this piece must have failed out of editing school. Choppy and poor continuity.
Read above comment to learn why: the short answer? UA-cam demanded it be done that way otherwise it wouldn't have been allowed to broadcast.
It wasn’t about states’ rights. It was fought over slavery. Don’t rewrite history.
Wrong. Get educated
@@Matthew-sw4ie just because you choose to believe that position, doesn’t give you the the right to tell me “to get educated”. I am educated and have a different opinion for the war than you do. So don’t disrespect me for a having a different view. No response from you needed.
It was fought over both issues.
Several factors led into the main economic factor that started the war. The Southern landowners were heavily dependent on Agriculture whereas the Northern population had quickly became more industrialized and was not dependent on farming, the Federal government was also subsidizing Northern fisheries but not ones in the South as well as the Mail system in the North being much more subsidized. If the conditions had been the opposite would the North have been as quick to campaign against slavery? More importantly, the British floated government bonds to fund buying slave owners slaves and giving them freedom 20 years before this, Lincoln was in office a month and invaded instead of looking for this British type of negotiated economic solution.
@@Matthew-sw4ie Of course it was about slavey. There had been a build up of tension in the nation regarding slavey for over a decade before the war. The secession documents and Confederate leaders explicitly stated that it was about preserving slavery. Even though most Confederate soldiers didn't own slaves, they were lead to believe that abolition would lead to their jobs and property being stolen by the freed slaves.
Actually I didn't like this movie. I visited Gettysburg. The movie concentrates on Little and Big Round top and ignores everything else. In my opinion the best battle at Gettysburg was Devil's Den. Very disappointed in this movie.
Agreed. Devils Den, Wheatfield and the fighting in the city were totally ignored!
You must try to realize three things. First, this film sticks with the source material (The Killer Angels) and displays the parts of the battle depicted in the novel. Second, the film is not a historical documentary and even with the limited focus of events from the battle, is still the longest movie ever released in theaters. Third, someone can always go back and show the parts of the battle that you feel are overlooked in another film version of this 3 day event.
I get why they had to pick and choose but agree it's disappointing. My GGGGpa fought at the Wheatfield and following Spotsylvania, where he fought at the bloody angle, he wrote in his diary that the fighting at the mule shoe was some of the hardest fighting they had done...second only to that done at Gettysburg. Given what I know about Spotsylvania I cannot even imagine how brutal the wheatfield must have been! That said, I still love the movie. I would really like to see some new civil war media though!
Good video but very badly edited. Too choppy and left too many sentences incomplete.
Read above comment to learn why: the short answer? UA-cam demanded it be done that way otherwise it wouldn't have been allowed to broadcast.
I am the great, great, great grand nephew of Maj. Gen. John Fulton Reynolds. Who was KIA 1 JULY 1863 @ approx. 10:30 am, leading the Iron Brigade into battle in Herbsts Woods on McPherson's Ridge. Near the road which is now US 30 as it enters Gettysburg from the Northeast. He was the commander of the Left Wing of the Army of the Potomac, the 1st, 3rd and 11th Corps. The 1st troops to reach Gettysburg, marching up from Maryland.
I love this until Ken Burns shows up. He sold his historical soul down the river when he sided with the leftist progressive animals and advocated for the removal of Confederate memorials and the Confederate battle flag. And I say this as a man born in and still residing in Montana. No history should be cast aside to preserve ANYONES feelings.
What kind of recreational drugs are you on?
Confederate monuments belong in a museum, not in a town square.
Southern propaganda film nuff said