Some great scenes in it, though. Especially the sea-saw battle between the 20th Maine and the opposing Alabama units. When the Rebels begin to emerge from the darkness of the forest it brings a chill up your neck just like the rebel attack in "Red Badge of Courage" that caused Audie Murphy to turn tail and run. The cannonade that precedes Pickett's Charge is one of the most stirring spectacles I can remember in any movie. Unfortunately, the dialogue doesn't come up to the level of the battle sequences. Still, it's a very powerful film and probably the best existing depiction of what a Civil War battle may have been like.

By the by Banjer, I'm not a re-enactor, just a Civil War buff. Also a western history, celtic history and just about any other kind of history buff.