Pickett Update 4
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- At 11:45 PM EST, the Army of Northern Virginia, Lieutenant General George T. Pickett commanding, has finally finished setting up all practical fortifications in the capital-city of Richmond, Virginia.
Lieutenant General Lewis A. Armistead has also arrived from the remains of Norfolk with only twelve soldiers of his Lo's Guard. He won't tell me the exact details of why he was released by the Union and/or British forces, only that *A friend of his owed him a favor*.
Richard Jordan was a great actor, throughout this movie his scenes were some of the most moving. He was sick with cancer and had to really suffer through it.
@US Citizen - Brain Cancer at that. He died months after the film and thus this is his last film.
He sure was.
I enjoyed all his performances over his career.
Real sad when a favorite passes on.
@@rebelbaron7003 loved him in one of his earlier films 1973's "The Friends Of Eddie Coyle" with Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle, he truly was a great actor and a chameleon, in one role he nails the Boston/New England accent and then the next he's mastering the southern accent. Def taken from us way to soon.
A fine gentleman as well.
Gettysburg was a tribute to him as an actor and man. He was very good in his final effort.
In this clip, Pickett was aggravated over the fact that he was last in the formation for the charge. In reality Longstreet was protecting him, saving him for the battles to come since he knew that the battle will suffer a brutal defeat. A brilliant way to portray Longstreet’s vision on the charge
Poor Armistead never got that chance to speak with Hancock :(
In the epilogue it said that Armistead died in a Union Hospital. I really hoped they maybe did have that chance.
They served together at the small Army post at Los Angeles before the war.
@@64MDW nice!
@@anthonyhengst2908 When Armistead was captured his wounds were not considered serious. Unfortunately medical science at that date had not advanced to the point of handling post injury infections.
Longstreet is demonstrating to be a good leader. He hears out the complaint of his men, points out there isn’t a conspiracy, that everyone has a place they need to be and where they may need to be in case something happens.
The Gettysburg cast was the most perfect casting in Hollywood history with people who look like they were separated from birth from the people they portray
With one exception. I could not be a bigger fan of Martin Sheen. But he lacks the presence to play Lee. It was a perfect role for Robert Duvall. Too bad.
Or the reincarnation of their characters
@@trajan231 That is true.
Sheen was awful as Lee. Made him look like some kinda mystic
Ach! Poor Armistead. Just wanted to see his friend one more time.
After General Armistead was injured during Pickett's Charge, he was captured behind Union Lines, and taken to a Tent, that wasn't even 20 Feet away from where his old friend, General Hancock, lay wounded.
General Armistead died the next day, only 20 Feet away from his friend...and (According to the sources that are available to us), never even got to see him.
Now that's sad.
I feel like Longstreet throughout the film feels like he is only one that can see the impending doom and also the pomp and vanity.of war is gone for him by this point in the war, especially with how he responds to the "one man and a cause" comment by Armistead, everyone from Hood, Lee, Pickett, Armistead and so on were portrayed as being overly confident almost to a delusional point.
Well of course Longstreet is portrayed that way, he made a fortune after the war writing books and such to say the South never stood a chance and the whole war had been a mistake.
Longstreet in reality was just a cheap knock off version of Jackson. Dollar Store version of Hood. He really wasn't that effective, never won any particularly stunning victories, and was never in locked step with Lee like Jackson was, much to Lee's detriment.
Longstreet was like the German generals after WW2 writing books and memoirs to blame "crazy Hitler" and how they always knew best and were never wrong. Longstreet was just better at his blame shifting.
Exactly! He hasn't even wanted to go to Gettysburg to fight-But orders are orders ..and I believe that, even though he continued to fight for the Confederacy, he became quite disillusioned...and this may have served as a tipping point, for why he re-aligned himself with the Union, after the Civil War had drawn to a close.
Wow, never saw this clip. It actually reveals that Pickett's two brigades under Corse and Jenkins were defending Richmond.
God I love this movie....
Pickett was a major general in command of a division. He was not a lieutenant general of a corp.
In those days you could be a 3 star in charge of a division. He still reports to a 3 star that outranks him.
@@jamesmarjan5481 All confederate generals had three stars on their collar.
Isn't that Stephen Lang acting as Picket having a conversation with Longstreet ( Berenger.)? Richard Jordan acted as Armistead who was mortally wounded and asking about Hancock his good friend!
Yes, Stephen Lang as General George Pickett in Gettysburg and, as "Stonewall " Jackson in Gods and Generals.
I love the humanization of the average man around this time. They weren't slaving psychos, they were disgruntled constituents who felt aggrieved by the actions of their government. They saw the war as something righteous, but still held onto their humanity, because after all is said and done they are only human, after all. I feel for these men, to have friends on the otherside that you used to interact with on a daily basis for years, only for the war to come and cock everything up and pin you against one another, and suddenly your best friend from West Point is in a shiny blue uniform across the Potomac. Nature and fate are cruel, but it is the human spirit that endeavors when times are bad and you can often see the best and worst in humanity.
But a lot of them really were slaving psychos….the officers, the educated men thought more philosophically about the war. To be sure, I’m sure not everyone in the Union army was noble, but can’t say they were traitors.
Most of the regular soldiers for the South faced being drafted or join and were not left much choice in the matter.
These were real men, these fellows. Do they even make Americans like this anymore? I don’t think so. As a reenactor, I remember the big heyday of Civil War reenacting back when this came out. Really makes me sad for those old days. Everyone is so bitterly divided nowadays and everything is so bleeding ugly and degenerate.
Yeah they make Americans like this today but instead of them getting attention, people rather worship people in like the music or movie industry coming out as trans or homosexual and call the honorable men depicted in this movie "racist" and other disgraceful things.
America will produce more men and even women like this when they are needed, she produced them when this country was first founded, she produced them when the time of the Mexican-American war and this dreaded war came and she produced them in WW2, and she is producing more of them today.
This is coming from someone who is part of Gen Z by the way.
Sounds familiar huh? Don’t be surprised if it happens again some day.
What, may I ask, are the qualities that these ‘real men’ have that current men do not? Nothing from this scene or indeed the actual men suggests they have some long gone unknowable quality that we don’t possess now. Also I must say what an odd comment to make about how bitterly people are divided now in comparison to these CIVIL WAR generals.... I’m pretty sure they were more divided then than now
Yeah, but who's sowing the division???
I mean, one party leader literally plotted to overturn an election and refused to to accept the results simply based on false allegations, which was followed by the sacking of the US Capitol.
I remember 135th Gettysburg ... Our Colonel, trying to find a correlation in history, called it an armed Woodstock.
Pickett was complaining to Longstreet about missing Chancellorsville when it was Longstreet who lead the campaign in Southern Virginia with 2 divisions, his and Hoods in a "piddling affair" While Jackson and Lee had to go into a fierce battle without them. Had Pickett and Hood been Present at Chancellorsville with Jackson in the Rear and Lee with 4 divisions instead of 2, Hooker would have lost his entire Army and the War might have ended right then and there.
The South had zero chance of winning the war, the North had 3 times as many white men than than the South had and with Black men too in 1863 another 180,000 men filled the North`s ranks, not to mention more industry and railroads.
@@shanebell2514 The South had many chances to win the war. They fumbled most of them away but the chances were there nonetheless. In Fact all the way up to September 1864 before Atlanta fell to Sherman the South could have still won had they held Atlanta and not allowed it to fall before the Presidential election. The North was tiring of the war and it was ready to thrown Lincoln and the War-hawk Republicans out of office start peace negotiations. But When Atlanta fell, the last major Southern supply and rail hub. All of that changed quickly. The End was now in site and Lincoln was reelected to finish the War.
@@mikesuggs1642 In Sep 1864 the confederacy was split in half, on the defense rather than offence, there was a blockade, and Europe wasn`t going to recognise the slave empire.
@@shanebell2514 There is always a chance that the CSA could of won but mistakes were made along the way. They needed a very decisive win early or a diplomatic exit and got neither.
The South had no chance to win having little food,guns,ammo,lack of shoes and being completely blockaded around all major ports.
Be careful what you wish for George
That's for sure
Agreed
Less than 24 hours later, he might've been wishing he'd never asked for any of his Men to be in that ill-fated charge!
The Great Lee then proceeds to do dumbest move in military history…… hubris is something
Ask and you shall receive.
Wow. Much of this scene (most of the Pickett moments) was not in the theatrical version. Was this in the extended version? I don't remember it.
Why don’t I remember this scene? Is there an extended version, or did I just forget? 🤔
1:45,1:46 IS WHEN RICHARD WALKS UP BEHIND TOM AND WAITS FOR HIS TURN TO TALK THEN ON 1:47,1:48,1:49,1:50 IS WHEN TOM HEARD RICHARD'S GENTLE VOICE TELLING HIM THAT HE APOLOGIZED FOR BUTTING INTO THEIR CONVERSATION BUT THE GUYS ARE CALLING STEPHEN OVER AT THE POKER TABLE.THEN ON 1:51,1:52,1:53 IS WHEN HE
TURNED TO STEPHEN THEN SMILED AND SAID"YOUR FAME SIR,HAS PRECEDED YOU."
Talk to “somebody” (Lee) lol
In your Descriptions you got everything wrong George Pickett in the Confederate Army Rank Major General Louis Armistead Brigadier General
GettysBEARD.
Honestly (esp. in relation to Longstreet's), I've seen better beards in a grade school Nativity play. Great movie, but some of the beard work... yeesh!
@@patrickfitzgerald9589 😅
@@patrickfitzgerald9589 Yep. I have a real beard and it looks a hell of a lot better than some of theirs. Longstreet's isn't bad, neither is Lee's. Armisted's is atrocious.
where does this part fit into Gettysburg the movie did they delete it
Nice
IT Seems to Me that thing's are aligned in a given Order & We just progress through them. For thought 🤔 I've been Slowly Reading at leisure The Three Volume Set of the Late Shelby Foote's. The Civil War, A Narrative. I'M currently in Volume Two on Page 472 July 1st 1863 at Gettysburg and the First Battle's, involving General John Buford, and General Reynolds has Just Died. Where the Confederate Forces are moving Upon the Town itself Mid Afternoon.
Now is this Not, Ironically weird or Coincidental and, LOl just Kinda ahh Shit,Shot & dungarees ODD??
As I've Said it Before? History is apparently My lot in Life, that I never Realized what it meant. Well I was Going too mention how Critical the Above Scene's and many Other Small Moment's we're to Not only the Film, Gettysburg. But also they were too the Battle it's Self. The Casts Portral's of those Various People was just Phenomenal, so on Target 🎯🎯 that it's Now been Twenty Five to Thirty years, and We Still recall Thier Contributions or Thier Part's So we'll. Thank You for Sharing.
DARN IT I SPELLED "THEIR" WRONG!
TOM HEARD RICH'S GENTLE VOICE WHEN HE APOLIGIZED FOR BUTTING INTO THERE CONVERSATION 1:47,1:48 THEN HE TELLS HIM THAT THE GUYS ARE CALLING STEPHEN OVER AT THE POKER TABLE ON 1:48,1:49,1:50 THEN TURNED TO STEPHEN THEN SMILED AND SAID"YOUR FAME SIR HAS PRECEDED YOU." ON 1:51,1:52,1:53
THEN COMES RICH WALKING UP BEHIND TOM ON 1:45,1:46
This movie glazes Longstreet up too much. Look I like him too, he was easy going and was a good commander. But he screwed up horribly at Gettysburg taking charge of the artillery away from Walton because he wouldn't tell him what he wanted to here. And after the war he lived like a king which must have been annoying
Well Pickett got his chance. Lol
AND AGAIN HE LAUGHED GAVE HIM A BIG HIM AND SAID"OLD GLOOMY PETE!" ON 4:36,4:37,4:38,4:39,4:40
Ah, the traitor lovefest
Those were men which you most certainly are not. You aren't even worthy of speaking their name.
George Washington was the biggest traitor of them all in that regard. He was a British subject, you know.
@@rodmakermagazine7117 nonsense
And the democrats are still traitors...
'Ole Granny. Now known as 'Ole Traitor, "Ole Murderer
What a incredibly stupid comment.