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A detail from the ‘Gods and Generals’ DVD cover shows Earl Salisbury charging during a battle scene. ‘Right, smack, dab in the center,’ he says. ‘I’m the tall, skinny guy with stripes on his arm.’

[WhiskeyPapa]

I was an extra in "Andersonville", which I understand will be offered as a freebie on the G&G DVD set. I was in several scenes that I thought would be surely in the final cut, including a group of us right behind the primary actors. That scene was in the movie, but your humble narrator was cropped out. One of the re-enactors in our little group had the complete Union army uniform with a checked shirt and everything and full set of whiskers. Alack and alas, he tended to a corpulence that didn't exactly suggest a half starved POW and was asked to step aside.

Walt

[Old Phone Man]

I went out and bought Gods and Generals yesterday. If you are a Civil War history buff like me I think it's a must buy.
The cinematography is wonderful.. I've been to Fredricksburg many times and the depictions of the battle are very realistic...Jackson's flank march and attack at Chancellorsville was an epic endeavor not only by Stonewall but also by the director of this movie who used Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries to emphasize the drama involved.