1993's Gettysburg gets a seal of approval.
This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available. Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The 30-year-old Civil War movie Gettysburg ages well with a near perfect historical depiction of battle scenes. Written and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, the film tracks the major conflict between Northern and Southern troops in Pennsylvania during 1863.
In a recent video from Insider, historian Garry Adelman looked at scenes from Gettysburg and explained how they were accurate. Read Adelman’s comments below: “Gettysburg has sort of emerged as the greatest battle of the Civil War, and we have a lot of good accounts about what happened on Little Round Top. The Little Round Top set in the movie is extraordinarily accurate. It lacked the large boulders that are actually on the hill today and the soldiers really didn’t have time to build a stone wall until after the fighting but other than that, the open woods and the slope were very close to what you could see today.
The Union had already repulsed five attacks, and they saw the Southerners forming for one more. They were really out of options and in a desperate moment, their Colonel Chamberlain, you see him order the bayonet, ‘we don’t have bullets so let’s use the pointy spears on the front of our guns and charge down into them.’
They did a simple military maneuver that the movie spells out well for us. The Union line, the 20th Maine Regiment, was sort of straight, but then when the Confederates came from this side, they sort of formed into almost a V at some point. As they wanted to fall upon the Confederates, they wanted to do this, and then this.