Battle of Gettysburg - Union Charge

NOTE: THIS VIDEO CLIP RECREATES SCENES FROM THE CIVIL-WAR BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. IT IS GRAPHICALLY EXPLICIT WHEN UNION SOLDIERS USE FIXED BAYONETS TO CHARGE AGAINST CONFEDERATE TROOPS. IT IS NOT EASY TO WATCH. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

This clip, from the film Gettysburg, depicts a Union charge. The scene is based on the account of events by Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (who leads the charge here).

Recent scholarship asserts it may have been Lieutenant Holman S. Melcher who both suggested the use of bayonets and commenced the charge.

General Armistead and the End of Pickett's Charge

Credits

Clip from the 1993 film "Gettysburg," based on The Killer Angels (a book by Michael Shaara), online courtesy YouTube. Copyright, Turner Pictures, all rights reserved. Provided here as fair use for educational purposes.

Directed by:
Ronald F. Maxwell

Produced by:
Moctesuma Esparza
Robert Katz

Screenplay by:
Ronald F. Maxwell

Starring:

Martin Sheen - General Robert E. Lee
Tom Berenger - Lieutenant General James Longstreet
Jeff Daniels - Colonel Joshua Chamberlain
Stephen Lang - Major General George Pickett
Joseph Fuqua - Major General J.E.B. Stuart
George Lazenby - General Johnston Pettigrew
James Patrick Stuart - Colonel Edward Porter Alexander

Musical Score by:
Randy Edelman

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