You're right. And Mira Sorvino's casting as Mrs. Chamberlain was atrocious.
Happily, Kali Rocha's casting as Mary Anna Morrison Jackson was just about perfect.
In the time she wasted saying goodby to her hubby, they could have shown Stonewall Jackson defeating three numerically superior Federal armies in his BRILLIANT Valley Campaign. Instead we had to hear Mrs. Chamberlain drone on endlessly.