It is now 2024 and I find that no matter how many times I have watched and listened too this epic film, and there have been many, I can not stem the flow of tears as these honorable men valiantly defend what they believe in their hearts is right. So firm in their belief that they would give their lives too defend it. The film is brilliantly acted, directed, edited and when infused with this magnificent score it is impossible not too get emotionally involved in what was one of the most epic depiction of the greatest event in American history.
As did my great great great grandfather, Aquila Pascoe-1817-1893, Pvt, Company C, 81st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. His unit engaged at the Wheat Field on the second day of fighting. I find it interesting that he chose to enlist at age 44. His son William also served in the 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry though he was mustered out before Gettysburg, I think because of wounds received earlier in the war.
Make fun of me or laugh but this song makes me shed tears that I get to live in this beautiful nation. I had ancestors in the Civil War as many in these comments I’m sure do. I had a few on the Union side on my moms side of the family and on my fathers I had a confederate ancestor who hated slavery and just was fighting for his state. This music makes me think of them and I don’t even know them
@Sammy People back then weren't good people, good people are a rarity. Every nation has good and bad traits and to say that modern day America is bad because there exists people that you don't like is just childish to me.
Sammy yeah, interesting sort of place where a bunch of state flags still incorporate Confederate motifs. Literally the flag of a traitor state that took up arms against the US because they were worried Washington might try and, one day, abolish slavery.
@Sammy What, you mean the entire city of Washington DC was dead by 1860? Where did the President live? Why do historians so often refer to a dead city? Why was the South so worried about what Lincoln was going to do when he got to this dead city. So many questions, man. Clearly, I've been lied to.
@frank michael kreis@Sammy If you know any wannabe chucklefucks plz tell them that what person thought mattered about their comment was that someone from Germany even bothered to watch the film, much less lookup the ending credits. Sure, western audiences watch films about certain European national socialist movements, but those weren't exactly domestic conflicts, so which film regarding the German Revolution of 1918 would you recommend, because I'm ignorant as fuck and haven't bothered. That's meant to read as: Thanks German Person for your comment and whatever crosscultural effort you made to get there.
Well...since were already in the phase of both sides gathering support for such thing.. Probably not too much :D But to be fair even Jefferson said "And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." And since the current democrats are trying to segregate us and discriminate on us because of our race (a new bill from California) I know which side I wont be on. Not that the GOP is too good either, how did this libertarian party get so authoritarian is above me :D
To learn of the emptiness, perhaps we have or are, or will soon, but after that to learn to live in peace and with love? May not too soon we learn before the proper time is come.
The Nixon administration learned that if you set up slave labor in another country(China), then no one cares! It's just Chinese people, so no big deal! China has labor conditions similar to what the Noth had during and after the Civil War.
There is a lot of beautiful music in this world that has been written over the ages. This particular song on the Gettysburg soundtrack has to top them all and that is saying tons!!! When the snare drums come in with the rolling bass and timpani drums it's like the cannons are going off and horses are running across the open field! I get goosebumps! Randy Edelman nailed it!
One of my favorites soundtracks from one of my favorite movies. The cast was amazing and the cinematography was up to the task of capturing the terrifying awesome scope of 3 of the the most pivotal days in human history. I am always awestruck when I visit the battleground. There ain't nothing civil about war but there is honor....sometimes.
America can be proud of this masterpiece...I can spontaneously break in to tears whenever I hear this piece...They both fought to form a more perfect union...I'm proud us Irish played a part as well...🙏✌GOD BLESS AMERICA...++ ❤
After I saw this for the first time this year I can’t stop listening to this beautiful soundtrack 😍🎶 I’m so obsessed ❤️ The whole movie is absolutely a masterpiece 👌🏻
Me and my father watched this on VHS back in the 90's. We were in awe at the amount of Tape between the two parts......My father is long past now. But, for one time in our lives. We both agreed that it was the south's finest hour.
This composition reminds me that when divisive hatred leads to war, that such bloodshed and tragedy can unfold. It helps me see both sides as the victims, even if I am myself aligned to the North.
indeed victims. but who's the culprit? the British was defeated by the American just few years earlier and saw how strong this "colony" has become. so they did what they do best,... (divide rule). and have nothing to do with freeing the slaves.
Randy Edelman belongs right up there with John Williams as a Top composer. Both of their contributions bring Words to their music and make an added dimension in their musical scores.
There are very few moments in our history when so many gave up EVERYTHING to fight for what they believed in! Regardless of which "side" the cost were devastating not only to the men who fought the battles, but to entire families and communities, and nearly destroyed our nation. Randy Edelman brilliantly captures the raw emotion, heroic struggle, and sacrifice of the time. The whole movie is a masterpiece but with the tear jerking musical score it is one that will be remembered FOREVER with other great movies the likes of "Gone With The Wind"!
Sacrificed for what they believed in yes, but what the south believed in was RIGHT and what the north believed in was WRONG. the southerners just wanted to be treated like equals and have the same rights as the north. The north didn't like that so they bullied the south into a needless war (that lincoln wanted) that could've been solved in a courtroom with a pin and paper, instead, lincoln's very un-civil and unjust war cost hundreds of thousands of lives that could've could've been prevented. The south was right, the war was not about slavery, and we will never forget.
@@Sammy_shammy24 Have you read the ordinances for secession of the states that made up the Confederacy? They quite explicitly state that their reason for secession was for the preservation of the institution of slavery. This is a matter of record and fact. Not that I condone Lincoln's military response to the matter nor interference with the act of secession, suspending the writ of habeas corpus, or otherwise neglecting the provisions of the 9th and 10th Amendments. Personally, I believe in the idea of the state governments retaining independent power, separate from their obligation to each other as United States. But it must be reinforced that the motive for the secession was rooted in the preservation of slavery. To say otherwise is demonstrably revisionist. www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states It is also worth mentioning that the initial policy of the Lincoln Administration prior to the outbreak of hostilities was to stop the expansion of slavery into the new western territories acquired by the US government, but with no interference with it in states that the institution already existed. The problem was, the Southern States saw this policy of preventing slavery's expansion and reacted fearfully that the direct abolition of slavery nationwide would result. The only way this could happen in a non-wartime scenario is if there was enough support in Congress to pass such an amendment to abolish slavery, which at that point there was no feasible way of doing. Ironically enough, the secession of states and formation of the Confederacy is what legally enabled the United States to abolish slavery in 1865. And if you want to talk about moral beliefs over law and politics, there is nothing morally wrong in fighting for the cause of abolition, so for the rank-and-file Northern soldiers who enlisted in the US Army for this very reason cannot be "wrong." But do not mistake me, I believe the same thing can be said for the rank-and-file Southern soldiers who put allegiance to their respective states (regardless of their policies and how they conform/conflict with their personal beliefs) over their allegiance to their country. Above all, the thing that the men of both sides have in common that are admirable are their courage, devotion to duty, and tenacity in battle. They were men of honor that fought with honor, and deserve our respect. Not love nor hatred, but a solemn, dispassionate respect for who they were: soldiers.
@@thegenuinehamslice3944 we're all brothers and sisters now, confederates or yankee. im from the south, but I respect my friends from the north. good day to you.
Still one of the best soundtracks I have ever heard. Tugs on the heartstrings. My dream vacation is to visit these Hallowed grounds and pay my respects to all the men who gave their life for our nation. Some were Grey some were Blue.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives so that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
America, America -- God shed His grace on thee... and crowned thy good with brotherhood... from sea to shining sea. Before this great war: "the United States are..." but after this great war: the United States is." And in God's good Providence, she saved the world twice... in the 20th century from world tyranny...
The beginning of the song feels perfect for this year...Long.. Hard.. Painful, chaotic and nightmarish.. And now...There is a sense it has come to an end, and those who were enemies embrace.. Or these days elbow bump, now they can hopefully talk together as one...And at 3:20 is when we both celebrate as we move on from the hell of this year...And the previous 3, of this terrible division.
We are a band of brothers, and native to the soil, Fighting for our Liberty, with treasure, blood and toil; And when our rights were threaten'd, the cry rose near and far, Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag, that bears a Single Star! Hurrah! Hurrah! For Southern Rights, hurrah! Hurrah! For the Bonnie Blue Flag, that bears a Single Star!
I am french and, even if I I can't understand all the meaning of this battle (I think), this film is one of the bests films of war I've never seen (and this soundtrack gives me chills)...
@@vintagebrew1057 I know (Beauregard, for exemple, il a french name). French Louisiana consisted mainly of Southern States: this explains it in large part...
@@saintjust2 I believe he was Creole. Very striking looking man. And I agree, I am English, (did'nt know much about the ACW) and this film was superb with a beautiful soundtrack. The recent film "1917" is also one of the best movie's I have seen about war, with a fantastic soundtrack too.
I was on a trip to chicago for a scientific meeting. I had a free evening and almost by accident walked into a theatre playing this. Always a student military history, I was curious, but I was not ready for the assault on my senses and emotions. By the intermission, having just seen the defence of Little Round top by the 20th Maine, I could hardly look at the screen. Thank heaven for the break. War like this is not about glory, whatever that is, but rather it is about desperation. For, those involved, for those watching. Can this not stop somehow? Please stop. Please don't stop.
I would LOVE to see this in a theatre!!! I have only seen it on a TV screen, several times, and yes it is emotionally draining even under those circumstances. I learn something new about the battle and the war each time I see it, about the characters and the conditions at the time. Slavery would have eventually been phased out due to public opinion and the invention of the cotton gin. As Longstreet said, "We should have freed the slaves and THEN fired on Fort Sumter." But if the slaves had been freed, wouldn't it have been great if the war hadn't been necessary at all? In the long run after the slavery question, it was really all about politics and money.
@@SaraConr The south in 1860 was the wealthiest region of the United States in 1860 because of the cotton economy that was only possible due to slave labor. The south seceded because they saw the election of Lincoln and the GOP (along totally regional lines) and their stated position of banning the further expansion of slavery into the west, as a threat to the source of their wealth (well that of the planter elites who controlled the south politically) How? The western states without a slaveholding elite would tend to fall under the influence of northern elites who drew their wealth from railroads, banking, industry, and shipping. The western states would join the Union and give northern interests control of Congress and the White House via the Electoral vote. The south could see this coming That's why they got out. Sure Lincoln offered an amendment to protect slavery where it was. But the south knew that The amendment could be reversed in a generation when the western territories, economically and politically aligned with the northeast, could revisit that issue. The south also knew every year the north grew stronger due to mass immigration and more industrialization. If the south was going to make a bid for independence it had to move in 1860 not wait till 1880 when the population gap would even larger.
Still get goosebumps when I hear this and the rendition of the Gettysburg address. Dear black folks, this is the reparations this country give to you, their deaths for your FREEDOM!
Black folks did plenty of dying in Union blue for their own freedom. Two weeks after Gettsyburg, the 54th Massachusetts would march into Glory at Fort Wagner and prove black people could be more than bystanders as their fate in America was being played out. By the end of the war, 10 percent of the Union Army was black and they were willing to fight for less pay (the Union did even up the pay scale after a while) and the threat of summary execution if captured. Please keep in mind that black men have fought and died for this nation just as they built it on their backs going back to George Washington's Continentals who just like the Union Army was 10 percent black. That means black men were dying for your Freedom and that of every white American while many of them would be denied their own.
Don’t talk about black people like they didn’t have a hand in it either. Black men have fought and died for their country in every American war, including this one.
that part in the moviewhen Chamberlain hugs his younger brother with this song in the background always gets me cause im a twin and i would do the exact same thing
“This is a different kind of army. If you look at history you’ll see men fight for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, or because a king makes them, or just because they like killing. But we’re here for something new. I don’t … this hasn’t happened much in the history of the world. We’re an army going out to set other men free…He bent down, scratched the black dirt into his fingers. He was beginning to warm to it; the words were beginning to flow...It’s the idea that we all have value, you and me, we’re worth something more than the dirt. I never saw dirt I’d die for, but I’m not asking you to come join us and fight for dirt. What we’re all fighting for, in the end, is each other.”
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A powerful scene that is perfectly capped off by cutting to the American flag being held by a soldier. Tattered and stained with blood and smoke. but still being held high to show that the Union has survived its greatest test.
Idk if it is true, but in the 3rd book, penned by the original Arthur's son, Chamberlin is the one who disarms the Army of North Virgnia after the surrender. Seemed fitting
It happened in the 3rd book and in real history. Chamberlin would lead the 20th Maine back into desperate battle during the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864 where he would seemingly be mortally injured. General Grant himself gave Chamberlin a battlefield promotion to Brigadier General seeing that as a way to honor a dying hero. Chamberlin would survive his injuries and return to combat duty in time for the final campaign against Lee leading to Appomattox. Chamberlin would be selected by Grant to accept the formal surrender of the ANV.
Delete scane from Capitan Amerika- at Gettysburg- there was changed mind of Capitan Amerika from small boy to big man. Just film. But how many real man was changed their maind in that place? It is like in Czech republic by Hradec Králove. My great honorable for Southern soldiers fight for law of state raights and the same honorable for Nothern soldiers fight for freedom for slaves. They both are same brave, and I salute them together. Forgoten, but living in people for ever.
It is now 2024 and I find that no matter how many times I have watched and listened too this epic film, and there have been many, I can not stem the flow of tears as these honorable men valiantly defend what they believe in their hearts is right. So firm in their belief that they would give their lives too defend it. The film is brilliantly acted, directed, edited and when infused with this magnificent score it is impossible not too get emotionally involved in what was one of the most epic depiction of the greatest event in American history.
Absolutely one of the best pieces of music ever composed. If you disagree, then you are from another planet .
I couldn't agree with you more!
and its on top of one of the best movies of ever made!
That's unfair. I'm sure the Martian Colonial Rebels of 2090 would consider this a fine track.
@@JagerLange LOL!
@@Gettysburg-cz8hx If Jeff Daniels plays Union Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlin, who plays Confederate General Robert E. Lee?
Yes im still listenin to this in 2019. Who is with me?
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Justin Grove I believe a
LEE~! LEE~! LEE~! LEE~! LEE~! LEE~! LEE~! LEE~! LEE~! LEE~!
Justin with you all the way!
My great great grandfather Gustave Kast - 1837-1889, Captain, Company K, 16 Michigan Infantry fought at Gettysburg.
Dorothy Harris Moy Was a part of Little Round Top
Much respect to Gustave Kast for his tough fighting, he is at peace now.
As did my great great great grandfather, Aquila Pascoe-1817-1893, Pvt, Company C, 81st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. His unit engaged at the Wheat Field on the second day of fighting. I find it interesting that he chose to enlist at age 44. His son William also served in the 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry though he was mustered out before Gettysburg, I think because of wounds received earlier in the war.
Dorothy Harris Moy: Huzzah! God bless the union and God bless the United States of America.
@@chrisgoshey7388 Same here Samuel L. Beardsley Colonel, 24th New York Volunteer Infantry.
One of the greatest soundtracks of a movie of all time
Next to The Glory Movie Theme! I love both Glory and Gettysburg! I watch them every year on the respective Anniversary of the Battles.
A Bridge Too Far
2021 boys and girls, may both sides rest in peace.
Make fun of me or laugh but this song makes me shed tears that I get to live in this beautiful nation.
I had ancestors in the Civil War as many in these comments I’m sure do. I had a few on the Union side on my moms side of the family and on my fathers I had a confederate ancestor who hated slavery and just was fighting for his state.
This music makes me think of them and I don’t even know them
@Sammy
Ah yes, I also love posting hatefilled replies to comments about family ancestry by writing ignorant statements about this oh so awful nation.
@Sammy
People back then weren't good people, good people are a rarity. Every nation has good and bad traits and to say that modern day America is bad because there exists people that you don't like is just childish to me.
Amazing how everyone's ancestors hated slavery, isn't it? Just like how everyone's Opa hated Hitler. Absolutely fascinating.
Sammy yeah, interesting sort of place where a bunch of state flags still incorporate Confederate motifs. Literally the flag of a traitor state that took up arms against the US because they were worried Washington might try and, one day, abolish slavery.
@Sammy What, you mean the entire city of Washington DC was dead by 1860? Where did the President live? Why do historians so often refer to a dead city? Why was the South so worried about what Lincoln was going to do when he got to this dead city.
So many questions, man. Clearly, I've been lied to.
one of the best soundtrack ever on a movie. Great
As a german i agree with you: one of the greatest films and best soundtracks ever made!
@Sammy 60 % of all white Americans are decedents from Germany.
@@deanseyfried1732 so? it still doesn't make any sense
Last Samurai has to be up there as well.
@frank michael kreis@Sammy If you know any wannabe chucklefucks plz tell them that what person thought mattered about their comment was that someone from Germany even bothered to watch the film, much less lookup the ending credits. Sure, western audiences watch films about certain European national socialist movements, but those weren't exactly domestic conflicts, so which film regarding the German Revolution of 1918 would you recommend, because I'm ignorant as fuck and haven't bothered. That's meant to read as: Thanks German Person for your comment and whatever crosscultural effort you made to get there.
@@jeremiahbaldwin1626 So viel zum Thema Geschichtsbewusstsein. 😂
visited gettysburg twice i could spend all day wondering around and reflecting what transpired on these fields over 150 years ago
An epic and emotional film that today begs the question: Have we Americans learned nothing?
Well...since were already in the phase of both sides gathering support for such thing.. Probably not too much :D But to be fair even Jefferson said "And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
And since the current democrats are trying to segregate us and discriminate on us because of our race (a new bill from California) I know which side I wont be on. Not that the GOP is too good either, how did this libertarian party get so authoritarian is above me :D
To learn of the emptiness, perhaps we have or are, or will soon, but after that to learn to live in peace and with love? May not too soon we learn before the proper time is come.
The Nixon administration learned that if you set up slave labor in another country(China), then no one cares! It's just Chinese people, so no big deal! China has labor conditions similar to what the Noth had during and after the Civil War.
History isn’t truly taught anymore and the people is is supposedly taught to don’t care. It’s tragic
The film actually doesn't beg such a question.
There is a lot of beautiful music in this world that has been written over the ages. This particular song on the Gettysburg soundtrack has to top them all and that is saying tons!!! When the snare drums come in with the rolling bass and timpani drums it's like the cannons are going off and horses are running across the open field! I get goosebumps! Randy Edelman nailed it!
I live in the UK but this films is in my top 10 I love it and music!!!!....I am 35 but it always has me crying!!!!!
Величие генералов и храбрость южанского народа, вот что движет мной и каждый дешь шепочет в моей голове "юг востанет"
One of my favorites soundtracks from one of my favorite movies. The cast was amazing and the cinematography was up to the task of capturing the terrifying awesome scope of 3 of the the most pivotal days in human history. I am always awestruck when I visit the battleground. There ain't nothing civil about war but there is honor....sometimes.
America can be proud of this masterpiece...I can spontaneously break in to tears whenever I hear this piece...They both fought to form a more perfect union...I'm proud us Irish played a part as well...🙏✌GOD BLESS AMERICA...++ ❤
3:18 Absolutely one of the best movie soundtracks ever made.
That finale is very epic and well done!!!’
I am absolutely in love with the Civil War era ❤️
History is just amazing 😉
I have a great interest in the American Civil War too....more interest than the history of my own country!
yes Gettysburg does have one of the greatest music soundtracks ever of all time
This piece just about sums it up - men who had, in one battle, being witnesses to too much tragedy, too much death and killing, too much war.
An Aristotelian tragedy: Evokes both terror and pity. May they all rest in peace. The peace they were denied in this life.
I'm in 2020, who is listening with me?
I am.
I sure am!
One of my favorite soundtracks.
My favourite film,the music score brilliant
After I saw this for the first time this year I can’t stop listening to this beautiful soundtrack 😍🎶
I’m so obsessed ❤️
The whole movie is absolutely a masterpiece 👌🏻
I also can't stop listening to this beautiful soundtrack too and I am also so obsessed too and yes the whole movie is absolutely a masterpiece
this brings me to to tears, knowing how much my 3 brothers & countless others served with pride in our armed forces......jn
The movie and soundtrack show great reverence to this awesome battle we’re brother against brother died and are forever remembered. .
I LOVE THIS SONG
I'm a civle war reenactor and the battle field we use is were they shot the move
Me and my father watched this on VHS back in the 90's. We were in awe at the amount of Tape between the two parts......My father is long past now. But, for one time in our lives. We both agreed that it was the south's finest hour.
This composition reminds me that when divisive hatred leads to war, that such bloodshed and tragedy can unfold. It helps me see both sides as the victims, even if I am myself aligned to the North.
indeed victims. but who's the culprit? the British was defeated by the American just few years earlier and saw how strong this "colony" has become. so they did what they do best,... (divide rule). and have nothing to do with freeing the slaves.
@@ahmedelsabbagh9016 80 years is not a few years
Randy Edelman belongs right up there with John Williams as a Top composer. Both of their contributions bring Words to their music and make an added dimension in their musical scores.
Great soundtrack, and a tremendous finale by Edelman.
There are very few moments in our history when so many gave up EVERYTHING to fight for what they believed in! Regardless of which "side" the cost were devastating not only to the men who fought the battles, but to entire families and communities, and nearly destroyed our nation. Randy Edelman brilliantly captures the raw emotion, heroic struggle, and sacrifice of the time. The whole movie is a masterpiece but with the tear jerking musical score it is one that will be remembered FOREVER with other great movies the likes of "Gone With The Wind"!
Sacrificed for what they believed in yes, but what the south believed in was RIGHT and what the north believed in was WRONG. the southerners just wanted to be treated like equals and have the same rights as the north. The north didn't like that so they bullied the south into a needless war (that lincoln wanted) that could've been solved in a courtroom with a pin and paper, instead, lincoln's very un-civil and unjust war cost hundreds of thousands of lives that could've could've been prevented. The south was right, the war was not about slavery, and we will never forget.
@@Sammy_shammy24 Have you read the ordinances for secession of the states that made up the Confederacy? They quite explicitly state that their reason for secession was for the preservation of the institution of slavery. This is a matter of record and fact.
Not that I condone Lincoln's military response to the matter nor interference with the act of secession, suspending the writ of habeas corpus, or otherwise neglecting the provisions of the 9th and 10th Amendments. Personally, I believe in the idea of the state governments retaining independent power, separate from their obligation to each other as United States.
But it must be reinforced that the motive for the secession was rooted in the preservation of slavery. To say otherwise is demonstrably revisionist.
www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states
It is also worth mentioning that the initial policy of the Lincoln Administration prior to the outbreak of hostilities was to stop the expansion of slavery into the new western territories acquired by the US government, but with no interference with it in states that the institution already existed. The problem was, the Southern States saw this policy of preventing slavery's expansion and reacted fearfully that the direct abolition of slavery nationwide would result. The only way this could happen in a non-wartime scenario is if there was enough support in Congress to pass such an amendment to abolish slavery, which at that point there was no feasible way of doing. Ironically enough, the secession of states and formation of the Confederacy is what legally enabled the United States to abolish slavery in 1865.
And if you want to talk about moral beliefs over law and politics, there is nothing morally wrong in fighting for the cause of abolition, so for the rank-and-file Northern soldiers who enlisted in the US Army for this very reason cannot be "wrong." But do not mistake me, I believe the same thing can be said for the rank-and-file Southern soldiers who put allegiance to their respective states (regardless of their policies and how they conform/conflict with their personal beliefs) over their allegiance to their country.
Above all, the thing that the men of both sides have in common that are admirable are their courage, devotion to duty, and tenacity in battle. They were men of honor that fought with honor, and deserve our respect. Not love nor hatred, but a solemn, dispassionate respect for who they were: soldiers.
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@@Sammy_shammy24 As usual, more lost cause revisionism.
My favorite sence in the movie best track!!
Josh Jordan your 100% right they and the south should of won im a yankey but i have a big heart for the south
@@thegenuinehamslice3944 we're all brothers and sisters now, confederates or yankee. im from the south, but I respect my friends from the north. good day to you.
South will rise again!!!!!!!!!!
Still listening 2021 anyone?
der Film und die Musik dazu sind ein absolutes Meisterwerk. Auch die Besetzung ist Mega gelungen.
And to think, this was supposed to be a TV movie
So sad what happened to the soldiers but I'm sure they are all in heaven no more pain or worries, God bless them,
Love the movie
3:20 is the best part by far!
Amen.
On the 160th anniversary of the battle, God bless our troops who fought at Gettysburg
Still one of the best soundtracks I have ever heard. Tugs on the heartstrings. My dream vacation is to visit these Hallowed grounds and pay my respects to all the men who gave their life for our nation. Some were Grey some were Blue.
From Australia: They were all heroes - fighting and dying for the causes they believed in. Respect!
Richard Jordan deserved top billing along with the four fine actors pictured above.
He should have been given an Oscar for "The Mean Season"
Bloody good actor!
Thank you for this gift.
Отличный фильм и великолепная музыка не устарели за 27 лет)))
soglasen
my favorite movie of all time I'm a civil war buff always have been always will be, I bleed blue and grey
Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
GOD BLESS MY WONDERFUL FRIEND MOCTESUMA ESPARZA. I AM SO VERY PROUD OF YOU AND SO VERY HAPPY FOR YOU MR. ESPARZA. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.
I love this movie
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,
conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives so that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,
but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to
the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-
that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of
devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this
nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-
and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
America, America -- God shed His grace on thee... and crowned thy good with brotherhood... from sea to shining sea. Before this great war: "the United States are..." but after this great war: the United States is." And in God's good Providence, she saved the world twice... in the 20th century from world tyranny...
I wonder if the soldiers of the bettle of Gettysburg would’ve loved this?
The beginning of the song feels perfect for this year...Long.. Hard.. Painful, chaotic and nightmarish.. And now...There is a sense it has come to an end, and those who were enemies embrace.. Or these days elbow bump, now they can hopefully talk together as one...And at 3:20 is when we both celebrate as we move on from the hell of this year...And the previous 3, of this terrible division.
We are a band of brothers, and native to the soil,
Fighting for our Liberty, with treasure, blood and
toil;
And when our rights were threaten'd, the cry rose near
and far,
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag, that bears a Single
Star!
Hurrah! Hurrah! For Southern Rights, hurrah!
Hurrah! For the Bonnie Blue Flag, that bears a Single
Star!
*stars and stripes intensifies*
Good movie
My Brother Is alive! Thought both Chamberlains Boys.
Epic Film and epic Sound !
I am french and, even if I I can't understand all the meaning of this battle (I think), this film is one of the bests films of war I've never seen (and this soundtrack gives me chills)...
Pareil que toi ;-) C'est un des meilleurs films de guerre que j'ai jamais vu ;-)
There were many men of French descent who fought for the Confederacy...
@@vintagebrew1057 I know (Beauregard, for exemple, il a french name). French Louisiana consisted mainly of Southern States: this explains it in large part...
@@saintjust2 I believe he was Creole. Very striking looking man. And I agree, I am English, (did'nt know much about the ACW) and this film was superb with a beautiful soundtrack. The recent film "1917" is also one of the best movie's I have seen about war, with a fantastic soundtrack too.
Randy Edelman starts with Morricone then John Williams influence. Nice
This should be instant theme music when 2.0 kicks off.
Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful
MAN OH MAN I LOVE TIS SONG
Someone: avengers has the best theme song in the world
Me: 3:18
😮 I just realized the avengers them was taken and rearranged from this them 😮 listen 👂🏽
One War movie where i unashamedly shed tears for both sides!
So much and so many were lost in this senseless war......
I'm harking to it. Anyone else still harks to that perfection composure?
June 22, 2023
2020 anyone?
Wonderful all i can say thank you friend
My wake up alarm awesome 👏🏽
one the best rip confederate and union soldiers who fought and die in the 3 days bloodiest battle of the war
Brilliant . i could say a lot more because it is deserving of it simple brilliant
I was on a trip to chicago for a scientific meeting. I had a free evening and almost by accident walked into a theatre playing this. Always a student military history, I was curious, but I was not ready for the assault on my senses and emotions. By the intermission, having just seen the defence of Little Round top by the 20th Maine, I could hardly look at the screen. Thank heaven for the break. War like this is not about glory, whatever that is, but rather it is about desperation. For, those involved, for those watching. Can this not stop somehow? Please stop. Please don't stop.
I would LOVE to see this in a theatre!!! I have only seen it on a TV screen, several times, and yes it is emotionally draining even under those circumstances. I learn something new about the battle and the war each time I see it, about the characters and the conditions at the time. Slavery would have eventually been phased out due to public opinion and the invention of the cotton gin. As Longstreet said, "We should have freed the slaves and THEN fired on Fort Sumter." But if the slaves had been freed, wouldn't it have been great if the war hadn't been necessary at all? In the long run after the slavery question, it was really all about politics and money.
Are you for or against this movie?
@@SaraConr
The south in 1860 was the wealthiest region of the United States in 1860 because of the cotton economy that was only possible due to slave labor. The south seceded because they saw the election of Lincoln and the GOP (along totally
regional lines) and their stated position of banning the further expansion of slavery into the west, as a threat to the source of their wealth (well that of the planter elites who controlled the south politically)
How? The western states without a slaveholding elite would tend to fall under the influence of northern elites who drew their wealth from railroads, banking, industry, and shipping. The western states would join the Union and give northern interests control of Congress and the White House via the Electoral vote. The south could see this coming
That's why they got out. Sure Lincoln offered an amendment to protect slavery where it was. But the south knew that
The amendment could be reversed in a generation when the western territories, economically and politically aligned with the northeast, could revisit that issue. The south also knew every year the north grew stronger due to mass immigration and more industrialization. If the south was going to make a bid for independence it had to move in 1860
not wait till 1880 when the population gap would even larger.
Outstanding
From 2:45 to 3:15 plays when I look back at my toilet at the massive lincoln log I laid, that I struggled to get out..... PTSD kicks in......
2020 here
Magnificent
2024 here
great score
President Lincoln would be proud
hermoso sonido de melodia
Poignant!
Still get goosebumps when I hear this and the rendition of the Gettysburg address.
Dear black folks, this is the reparations this country give to you, their deaths for your FREEDOM!
Black folks did plenty of dying in Union blue for their own freedom. Two weeks after Gettsyburg, the 54th Massachusetts
would march into Glory at Fort Wagner and prove black people could be more than bystanders as their fate in America was
being played out. By the end of the war, 10 percent of the Union Army was black and they were willing to fight for less pay
(the Union did even up the pay scale after a while) and the threat of summary execution if captured.
Please keep in mind that black men have fought and died for this nation just as they built it on their backs going back to
George Washington's Continentals who just like the Union Army was 10 percent black. That means black men were dying
for your Freedom and that of every white American while many of them would be denied their own.
Don’t talk about black people like they didn’t have a hand in it either. Black men have fought and died for their country in every American war, including this one.
One might think that would be good enough but for the blacks that joined the Union Army, for their freedom.
@@Vetzero ... They did contribute. Still amazes me that free blacks owned 27% of all slaves in America
Extremely powerful
Yes this nice music all war soundtrack films have good music but this one is the best.
no other era marked the usa like this
that part in the moviewhen Chamberlain hugs his younger brother with this song in the background always gets me cause im a twin and i would do the exact same thing
Ok grazie
indeed this music means so much to me
and the actor who played Robert E lee in your words General May God Go With You
“This is a different kind of army. If you look at history you’ll see men fight for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, or because a king makes them, or just because they like killing. But we’re here for something new. I don’t … this hasn’t happened much in the history of the world. We’re an army going out to set other men free…He bent down, scratched the black dirt into his fingers. He was beginning to warm to it; the words were beginning to flow...It’s the idea that we all have value, you and me, we’re worth something more than the dirt. I never saw dirt I’d die for, but I’m not asking you to come join us and fight for dirt. What we’re all fighting for, in the end, is each other.”
Who’s Here For The Song It Was Used For Stephen Curry Three Point Record Breaking Ray Allen Record
During NBA Games Between
Golden State Warriors And New York Knicks
I was there live in MSG when they played this song, I thought I was the only one who recognized it
A powerful scene that is perfectly capped off by cutting to the American flag being held by a soldier. Tattered and stained with blood and smoke. but still being held high to show that the Union has survived its greatest test.
Defo 👌👌👌👌👌❤️
Underbar musik och film
Idk if it is true, but in the 3rd book, penned by the original Arthur's son, Chamberlin is the one who disarms the Army of North Virgnia after the surrender.
Seemed fitting
It happened in the 3rd book and in real history. Chamberlin would lead the 20th Maine back into desperate battle during the
Battle of the Wilderness in 1864 where he would seemingly be mortally injured. General Grant himself gave Chamberlin a battlefield promotion to Brigadier General seeing that as a way to honor a dying hero. Chamberlin would survive his injuries
and return to combat duty in time for the final campaign against Lee leading to Appomattox. Chamberlin would be selected
by Grant to accept the formal surrender of the ANV.
listen 2021
very noice
2020
Delete scane from Capitan Amerika- at Gettysburg- there was changed mind of Capitan Amerika from small boy to big man. Just film.
But how many real man was changed their maind in that place?
It is like in Czech republic by Hradec Králove.
My great honorable for Southern soldiers fight for law of state raights and the same honorable for Nothern soldiers fight for freedom for slaves.
They both are same brave, and I salute them together. Forgoten, but living in people for ever.
Americans fighting Americans. This has already happened once. It must NEVER happen again.
Let’s 🙏 it doesn’t
懐かしいなー
I am here in 2023 who else?
3:20 Such swelling music.