[BillyBoy]

Col. Chamberlain did have a pretty amazing military career. After seeing those movies, I'm surprised I had never heard of him before the films were made. He also would have been a key figure if they had made a third film about the end of the Civil War and Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, as Confederate General John B. Gordon was assigned the task to surrender all arms to Col. Chamberlain. Chamberlain, on his own initiative, ordered his men to come to attention and "carry arms" as a show of respect. Had Gods & Generals not been a box office failure, that would have been a great end to the trilogy.

And moreso than Daniels performance, I also have to give kudos to liberal goofball zillionaire Ted Turner for funding those movies.

Gotta give credit where credit is due.

[NFHale]

“Gettysburg” and “Gods and Generals” were two great movies, ins spite of the box office.

The scene at Marye’s Heights in Fredericksburg (in Gods and Generals) was harrowing. Over 12,000 Union casualties that day, two-thirds of them alone on the repeated assaults against dug-in Confederate positions on the Heights at the stone wall. There was no way in Hell they were going to take that position without reducing it by artillery.

Lincoln removed Ambrose Burnside from command of the Army of the Potomac (he had replaced McClellan after Antietam) because of the ghastly losses there.

“The Last Full Measure” would have been the third movie, if made... shame they didn’t.

I agree with the kudos to Ted Turner. He even made a few cameos in Gods and Generals - he was one of the officers in the audience with Lee and Stonewall Jackson when the performers were singing “The Bonnie Blue Flag”.