[skeeter]

4. Confederate uniforms. This really bugs me. Civil War movies which depict Confederates late in the war wearing immaculate uniforms. Only officers had uniforms at that stage of the war that were in decent shape. The uniforms of the average foot soldiers were either one step up from rags or were stolen Federal uniforms dyed a beechnut color. And even those latter uniforms were usually in bad shape.

my problem is with the confederates inside the uniforms - in reality these guys walked from the deep south to the battlefield. They chewed tree bark and drank creek water.

You'd hope the producers of civil war films could find extras that didn't look like they lived inside a Hometown Buffet.

[Tijeras_Slim]

FARBS

[gorush]

The Confederates were so emaciated that their dead didn’t stink nearly as bad as the well-fed dead of the North, or so I’ve read somewhere.

[Salamander]

LOLOL

I’ve forgotten the show’s name but I just saw some piece of History Channel junk with a CW officer riding a freaking Friesian stallion into battle.

Looked great...never would’ve happened.