Badeye, the $50 I spent on one of those Gettysburg tour guides who drove our car was the best money I spent in the entire 10-day trip...
Its up to $70, but well worth it. He had some very good stories about the making of Gettysburg, btw...and told me about the scene in the movie with ‘Chamberlain’ and his brother talking the morning of the third day up on Little Round top. He said ‘We always crack up noting the statute of General Warren hidden behind a screen of branches...”
I went back and looked, and sure enough, if you know to check, there is the monument to Warren on Little Round Top - the outline is clearly visible behind the faux ‘brush’ they put up. I’ve watched the movie two dozen times, never noticed it til now...(chuckle)
Yep, our guide was a U.S. History professor working at the battlefield in the summer, whose great-grandfather won the Medal of Honor at Gettysburg. (He was just a touch biased in his presentation, and being a Tarheel native — “First at Manassas, Furthest at Gettysburg (over the wall during Pickett’s Charge), and Last (to surrender) at Appamatox” — I more than forgave him nonetheless.)
Good stuff re: the movie. Much to my kids’ exasperation, we watch it every July 4th. I’ll have to go back and look at the Gen. Warren scene.