After watching this movie you see how good it is. It’s a sweeping epic charting the early years of the Civil War and how the campaigns unfolded from Manassas I to the Battle of Fredericksburg. It is a prequel to the film "Gettysburg" explores the motivations of the combatants and examines the lives of those who waited at home. This movie took place during the time of the civil war. It takes place in Virginia and the setting is very much time appropriate because it is where the actual battle took place, so there is some historical significance there as well. The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, between the Confederate Army and the Union Army. In the movie they were clothes that are in relation to that era rather than…show more content… It also follows Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Winfield Scott Hancock. Chamberlain is a Maine college professor who is appointed a Lieutenant Colonel and becomes second-in-command of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The film opens with Colonel Robert E. Lee's resignation from the Union Army. Major Jackson, who is a professor at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington at the outset of the war, leaves his family behind to do battle at Manassas Junction. Jackson is asked by a retreating General Barnard Bee for assistance against the Federal army who is pursuing them after a brief stand on Matthews Hill. In rallying his shaken troops, Bee launches the name of Stonewall into history and the Confederates rout the Federals at Henry House Hill. Jackson maintains steadfast discipline in his ranks during the battle despite suffering a wound to his left hand from a spent ball.Meanwhile, Chamberlain makes his transition from teacher to military officer and practices drilling his soldiers, and is taught military tactics by Col. He is called to battle at the Union invasion of Fredericksburg. Chamberlain and the defeated Union soldiers depart Fredericksburg. Jackson and Lee return to the city. I feel that the movie was for the most part historically accurate although there is one character in the movie who is actually a fictional character, which was Buster Kilrain, who was played by Kevin
