Filming the "Gettysburg" Confederate Scenes: 30th Anniversary 

Excellent presentation! I really enjoyed the interview with Patrick Gorman!

As a re-enactor I was a member of the 24th Michigan Regiment of Volunteers...great experience and we also were extras in the GETTYSBURG movie where we shot the Pickett's Charge scenes...as both Union and Confederate soldiers!!!

"The Ground is strewn with boulders, the soldiers up there are entrenched all over the ground, and their guns in the rocks, every move i make is observed! If I attack as ordered, I'll loose half my division!"

The movie is very special to me not only because I love Gettysburg and because I have a Civil War ancestor (Corinth/Hatchie River) but because it was the last movie I saw with my father before he passed away. These 30th anniversary vignettes about the production are informative to see and bring back great memories. I hope there are more coming. Thank you.

"Gettysburg" is my wife's SECOND ALL-TIME FAVORITE MOVIE. She watches is every July, and the soundtrack gets played throughout the month. I'll have to show her this video.

I was in Gettysburg 2 weeks ago. There is no way you can do a bit of justice to that hallowed location, unless you spend days exploring. Well worth the drive from Michigan! Thank you American Battlefield Trust!

My 3x great uncle died (July 7, 1863) at the Plank farm after having an amputation. He was with Daniels Brigade (NC) & was injured on the first day of battle. Crazy to think of everything those men went through. The movie did a great job of telling the story of those 3 days.

I was at the 30th anniversary and went on the movie location tour. A highlight was visiting this barn...

This is wonderful stuff very informative and entertaining ……great work fellas from across the pond👏🇮🇲

I was in this film at the age of 16. My God, such a LONG time ago 😢.

I'm glad this video is back. I was already wondering why it got deleted.

Was in Gettysburg for a family vacation when this was being filmed, made an already interesting trip even better

Been to the barn several times over the years, inside once. Another great post.

I was a 2nd Sergeant for Co. G, 1st Arkansas Volunteers and was privileged to participate in the 135th anniversary Battle of Gettysburg. The actual 1st AR was an Army of Tennessee regiment and was not at Gettysburg, so I and other 1st AR members were amalgamated into a Texas regiment for the 135th. When we arrived to check in prior to the beginning of the event, we checked in inside this very barn. The entire reenactment took place on around this farm.

This is Awesome, Thanks American Battlefield Trust!

The birds (sparrows, I suspect) can be heard throughout the scene. I always listen for them when viewing the movie. Great moviemaking to leave that in.

I would love to see this film. 🎥 And love all this History. Love Tim’s input. And good to know that it’s fiction that Longstreet never visited a wounded Hood in a Hospital. 💯👍👊

I’m from Taneytown. My wife and I are watching the movie she’s from Brazil and has never seen it.

That hospital scene was filmed on a wet Sunday. August 16th 1992. My cousin Ken(who got me into the hobby and talked me into coming back east for the movie)was the reb in the black broad brimmed hat wounded in the hand and sitting on the ground, looking up at Longstreet with a dirty look as he walks by. He,as the others from my bay area living history group, flew out for the movie. I was afraid to fly and had no money for plane fare anyway and so I boarded the California Zephyr on Friday,August 14 at Martinez California(I was living in Danville)for Harrisburg PA. I was sitting at the Harrisburg train/bus depot with my big black Eddie Bauer bag stuffed with my Virginia gray uniform and brown brogans, accoutrements and blanket wrapped Enfield for five hours waiting for someone from my club to drive up after this filming to come pick me up. I had eight dollars in my pocket. I was thirty and had never been further east than Yosemite(and that was in 1977). That night,my little buddy Tim(the young man being carried into the hospital in a mans arms,limbs dangling)drove up with another pard from our Nor-Cal 7th VA. Regiment and got me. Pickett's charge filming began the next day. Yup.

Got to see this location when I attended the 135th Gettysburg reenactment back in the 90s.

Patrick Gorman was 89 yrs old in 2023. I hope I'm in the same shape if I get to that age in my life.

I remember that barn was where registration was for the 135th reenactment in 98

Stephen Lang was actually thrown from his horse filming that scene. I was on set as a reenactor at that barn and told to lie down in the grass as a dead body. It was a hot day and I ended up falling asleep. I nearly ruined a take when I woke up to a pyrotechnic explosion going off in front of me.

this video just made me think... next year is my 50th birthday. i was 3 years into a 25 year reenacting hobby career at the time the film done and i gave time to it... i never thought about the property of the Plank farm as Hood's actual hospital site. for my 50th birthday i am staying at an Airbnb on Plank Rd... i think it is named for the farm and is very close to the location of the farm. i know that land was purchased by the trust a bit ago. not sure what is happenning with that property now. But, i am sure i would be just yards away as it appears a bit close on the map. now i will be reciting Hood movie lines every time i go to the airbnb to rest between days. Best part is i will have my wife and three kids with me now to enjoy it.

John Bell Hood and his wife died in an epidemic after the war, and their children (10 I think) were split up among other families. I was working at the Gettysburg VC when one of his descendants came to the resource room to find out what she could about Hood. This was a black woman and her black husband, descended from one of Hood's children who went to a black family. They weren't exactly proud of Hood but not angry about him either. He was just back there in her ancestry and they found it interesting.

Best movie ever made in my opinion.

Love Patrick Gorman!

This barn was generic in the time of the ACW. I believe it was seen in the 2nd Maine's march to the battlefield as a backdrop. Good location management which I'm sure the beancounters appreciated.

I can't remember who said it but I always got a kick about what someone said about Kyd Douglas's book "I Rode With Stonewall." They said it was more like "Stonewall Rode with Me."

Just as good the second time around... 😊

What map was used to show the plank farm?

Wonderful!

another great one.

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It's not a hat It's cap specifically a kepi.

I may stop following because of that hat.

Great Video !