"Gettysburg: Darkest Days & Finest Hours" Complete Civil War Docu-Drama 

On July 4 (7/4), 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg had ended. A hard rain began that afternoon that lasted for days and Gen. Lee began a very organized retreat back to Northern Virginia. Also on 7/4, Vicksburg surrendered to Gen. Grant after a 47-day siege. Also on that afternoon, President Abraham Lincoln gave an Independence Day speech from the White House balcony where he said, "Eighty odd years since, upon the Fourth day of July". In writing his Gettysburg Address, 'Father Abraham' realized he could say, "4 score and 7 years ago, our fathers" as a reference to going back 87 years to 7/4/1776 and as a reference to Genasis 16:16 when "Abram (Abraham) was 4 score and 6 years old when the slave girl Hagar gave birth to Ishmael ('Is he male?')". This is the first use of "score" in the King James Bible. Besides Gen 16:16, Lincoln was the 16th p(16)resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Av. President Andrew Johnson declared the Civil War officially over 16 months after Lee surrendered. Abraham Lincoln II - the only grandson of the 16th president - died at age 16. He and his father Robert Todd Lincoln are entombed in Arlington National Cemetery - the former Lee-Custis Plantation. This is part of Seal #2: GOD=7_4 or FOD=6_4 (on Planet Nestor); see 7seals.blogspot.com . Only the returned Christ, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein reincarnated could produce this. This fulfillment of the prophecy of Rev 5:1 has triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is not the 'end of the world' - it's the 2nd Coming.

President John Adams was the first resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; thus, Lincoln may have been the 15th resident, but not the 16th.

Real my green ass.The horrors of war are far more vivid, while the dust obscures the real carnage. No endless screams, no mud or dirt. And do you realize it's 75 cal. A musket ball does not only penetrate, it shatters bone, spraying te shards to the men around them. It literary knocks someone down by the sheer impact. Volleys are easy to film, one side fires(all centered left), next shot a line of men are dropping(all centered left), you tried it several times , but the shots could also be into the air for the viewers sake. Movies also have a "read direction" you totally failed to grasp. Shacking the god damned camera like an amateur, cause it gives such a Blair witch I am there feeling, does not work in a documentary, it annoying to watch. Your task is to keep it steady, such trivial things are done in a studio and then with measurement. This time I won't complain about the children, no we have plenty of over acting in this field by grown-ups. Yes I know they are volunteers, does not mean they can act. Using the smoke and dust is a perfect use to obscure this errors, besides the obvious lady on the horse. What is your purpose, view it as a witness/documentary or a filming volunteers. This movie misses a lot of after production, the computer animations about troop movement could have better be used for this...

And stop putting the camera in peoples faces!

Yeah we know this but we understand its free so we dont complain about it. Anyone who is watching this is at Least somewhat learned on the civil war and most likely knows that this does not encapsulate wars entire horrors. Its better then most I've seen and I give the creator credit. This wasn't easy to put together.

@Walter Dumbrowski It's possible that the odor of spent gunpowder and blood took precedence. I don't know. I wasn't there.

thats pretty cool man...

Damn. That is awesome, sir😊👍

How true. What you see are a bunch of actors with a bad script.

The Confederste dead and most of their wounded were left on the battlefield. They were eaten by feral hogs and wild dogs. Their remains were excreted on the battlefield.

It probably smelled better than 3 days after the battle

That's Why the cemetery was dedicated in November. It was much cooler, but there was still an obvious odor.

@@rebelscumspeedshop I would have waited until late January when everything was well frozen. I was part of a search team looking for 2 girls who'd been murdered and left in their car out in the country in late June for over a week. A farmer reported a "strong odor" from his field. Temps had been in the high 80's to low 90's for that week. We found the girls almost 1/2 mile from his house in that field, in their car, windows rolled up. I'll skip the condition the bodies were in only to say the recovery team had to wear haz mat suits with gas masks to recover them and they still said they could smell it and had been puking their guts up. I'm 70 y/o now. This was over 50 yrs ago and I have yet to smell anything worse than what that smelled like...from 1/2 mile away!

ha ha

Brilliant piece of work

@@alwilson3204 Indeed, it was, Mr. Wilson👍

Clare you have a very valid point in what you have said, to be totally honest with you, it was only yesterday that I learnt about Tillie Pierce. She was in a relationship with a soldier and she was watching the battle and she was hit in the head with by a stray bullet apparently the poor girl, but you are right Clare I’ve watched quite a few documentaries about Gettysburg and the civil war because I’m a very spiritual person and I like watching documentaries about the paranormal and like I said yesterday was time that she had been mentioned so you are right more about her should be documented, I certainly think so anyway. Take care of yourself Clare from Stevie boy in Britain

Tawanna, I agree with you. I have almost 40 years studying the Civil War. I know at the end the total casualties were different. I always heard some say 28 thousand Confederate soldiers. I had read that was not the truth years back and the number was really 20 thousand. The truth is the Union lost more men at Gettysburg. I noticed this documentary showed the numbers I have debated on forums for a decade. Did you catch that in the end?

No the union did not lose more at Gettysburg than the south, dipshit..

@@tedunseth3966 The AoNV lost 28,000 men at Gettysburg, the AoP 23,000. Those are the generally accepted numbers.

@@erichonecker1010 If you are a serious student then you can help others to learn better without the silly insults.

@@tedunseth3966 You have way more knowledge on this subject than I have, My thinking on battle is. Lee made a fatal mistake on day one when he refused to listen to the pleas of longstreet and picket to take the high ground that was undefended at the time and ultimately cost him the battle. What are your thoughts on this?

Well Eye wish eye was in the land. Of. C. O. T. T. O. N carol

You call "Ancient Aliens" reality?

They're always riveting to watch, Ms. Utley

720,000 lives were lost during the America Civil War 1861 - 1865

The thing is that the Civil War was about State's rights vs Federal Government power over the States slavery was a little part of the hole thing history of the south is very important Rebel history is our history and it should not be forgotten or banded for history books. We ended slavery but States lost their power to govern them self

And the importance of 1683

@@shirleyhannel5795 you are being a lost cause revisionist. Slavery was the major cause of the war.

@@travisjthompson2 No it wasn't. The North invaded the South. The Federal government was trying to force more control over the states. Slavery was the straw that broke the camels back. It was not the primary cause of the secession.

The north invaded the south after the south started the war. Yes it was slavery that was main cause of the war. I would say read all the articles of succession by the succeeding states as proof but I doubt you lost cause neo confederate racists can read..

Their sufferings are immeasurable😕

@Jim 762 And to think, our current generations seem more than willing to throw all the sacrifices these men and the men of many other wars made into the garbage can of "equity", feigned "virtue signaling", one sided censorship and, apparently, the right to have drag queens read a story to or perform a show for our elementary school aged children. The word ungrateful doesn't even BEGIN to describe the insanity. Very sad state this country is in.

It’s Filmed at the yearly Gettysburg reenactment re-enactors from all over the us go

I participated as a member of the 26th N.C, Infantry and we had reenactors there from around the world. The annual Gettysburg reenactment is the main event for Civil War reenactors and a lot of reenactors plan their year around it. I think we had around 12,000 plus that year.

The info about this says 15000

It's as if their trying to erase it from history which can't be done .very important part of history our history must be taught

That's. Right

Agreed. This really gives you an idea on how sustained this slugfest was. THIS is what the History channel should be showing instead of Pawn Stars and Ancient Aliens. ✌️

Considering a cavalry reenactment needs to have contact with individuals on horseback extreme safety precautions must be taken. Cavalry reenacting is extremely dangerous and must be practiced and in most cases scripted. Its not a movie. Its men working with each other to show as best as possible a cavalry engagement. Ultimately we want no injuries, everyone ride away unhurt, man and horse.

@@charlescalvert8647 safety precautions must be made at reenactments. Cavalry you have be extra careful because you don't want yourself and fellow reenactors get hurt or the 🐎 horses. Things can go badly quickly, i have seen it myself at a reenactment. During the Cavalry skirmish a Union Cavalry man fell off the horse and was dragged and was hurt. He was ok, return the next days battle, he horse got spooked i think? I was in Infantry unit in front of the Cavalry skirmish, when it happened.

It's a complete masterpiece of semi-documentary and reenactment filming, Mr. Tillman. Very well done, and my compliments and gratitude to all involved with its filming👌😇

True. Unless you have fired a rifled musket yourself, you really can't imagine it. Then you have to imagine hundreds of them being fired all around you, not to mention the cannon, which are quite literally deafening. Even a small skirmish could be heard for many miles around. I would imagine that a battle like Gettysburg could be heard at a great distance. In fact, there are no fewer than half a dozen contemporary reports that the cannonade on the third day was heard in Lancaster, which is 52 miles from Gettysburg.

The XI Corps debacle had no effect on the outcome at Chancellorsville. 3rd Corps took up blocking positions at Chancellor"s and fought Lee's army to a standstill, inflicting enormous casualties to the tune of 10,000 Confederate dead, wounded, and missing. The brilliant Lee was in a trap, with the fighting 3rd Corps in front and 45,000 fresh Union Troops on his right flank. Lee had also lost Fredericksburg, with his entire force there wiped out to the tune of 3,000 more. Then the neurotic Gen. Hooker had a nervous breakdown and called for a retreat

Oliver Howard lead the 17th Corp this best corp in the Western Theater and the whole Union Army. He lead them well at the Atlanta Campaign and the March in the Carolinas campaigns. General Hooker should have lead a Corp not the Army of Potomac, was a idiot. Sherman hated Hooker with fiery passion, I don't what lead to their feud?

Totally agree! Chamberlains brilliant defense of little round top was pivotal in anchoring the union line

And since Vicksburg.

@@jeffboyer2747 I hope go to the 2023 Vicksburg event, my Federal Unit 45th Illinios fought there!!

That's the thing about movies and documents you can only fit so much in, Gettysburg was a HUGE battle there for a lot of things don't get mentioned sometimes.

The afternoon battle lasted some 3 hours ("the best 3 hours of fighting anywhere."-Longstreet.) the Gettysburg Nat'l Park Service" has literally dozens of videos- talks, lectures, battlefield walks- about the 3 days of battle which includes Little Round Top and also dozens of sites some people haven't even heard of. To be repetitive, there are dozens (lol) of stories-and heroes- here you might've never heard of.

Yeah, Lee's problem was that when the armies blundered into each other on the roads north and west of Gettysburg, he was in a terrible strategic situation and did not initially know what he was up against. His fear was that he would be engaged by the bulk of the Union Army while his army was still strung out on those roads. That's why he kept ordering his subordinate commanders to avoid doing anything that would start a general engagement. Heth gets a bad rap for "disobeying" those orders, but that is not exactly what happened. Heth was taking his division in the direction of Gettysburg along the Chambersburg Pike when one of his brigades bumped into Buford's cavalry brigade. Heth was suddenly being shot at by these cavalrymen, but it looked like it was no big deal. So he got a brigade in line an told them to drive the federal troops off. Instead of leaving the area as would be expected, Buford started to put up a real scrap, so Heth started putting more troops into the field to deal with them. Suddenly, federal infantry support shows up and before he knew it, he was engaged with elements of I Corps. What he didn't know yet was that II and XI Corps were coming up behind I Corps and would arrive shortly. The battle had developed while Lee was militarily blind, owing to Stuart's absence (He was up in Carlisle looking for the army, after doing what he had been ordered to do.) Lee managed a victory on the first day anyway, but it left the Union on the heights, digging in and getting ready for another fight. The reason that I say that Lee had put himself in a bad strategic position is that he ended up facing almost the entire Union army, which was deployed in a manner that threatened both his lines of communication and lines of retreat. He was therefore in a strategic position that virtually required him to attempt to fight it out, and frankly from the moment he entered Pennsylvania he was in a position that required him to engage the Union Army wherever he found it. It was just that by the circumstance of the armies blundering into each other piecemeal, Lee was deprived of the opportunity to choose his ground. On the second day, Lee was let down by some of his subordinate commanders, most notably Gen Mahone, who declined Gen Anderson's order to support Gen. Wright's breakthrough in the Union center on Cemetery Hill. The attacks on the flanks failed largely because they were not coordinated with one another. Had any of these assaults been conducted in the manner Lee had planned, the story of Gettysburg may well have been very different. That takes us to the third day, and while I have little patience with anyone who suggests that he understands what Lee was thinking, I am reasonably convinced that Lee was attempting to do with three divisions and artillery support what Wright's single brigade had done the day before. So was Lee being stupid? I don't think so. He definitely cocked it up, mostly by expecting too much initiative from his subordinate commanders, but the entire campaign was a desperate gamble on the part of the Confederacy in the first place, born of the fact that the Confederate leadership understood completely that they were not going to win a war of attrition against the United States.

I've read that in Mississippi alone, over half of the 1866-7 state budget was for artificial limbs.

I think your talking about the “pipe creek plan”- this was an alternative plan that Meade made in late June- but no by all accounts he rushed his troops towards Gettysburg once he heard the first corps and cavalry under Buford had established heavy contacts with the anv. The pipe creek plan was used against Meade during a political show trail after the battle.

@@localchair1870 Thanks for the clarifacation. As much as I read about this war over the years, I find the more there is to learn.

@@davidweum yw- Its a really really interesting topic- there was something of a nasty Rivalry between Meade and Sickles and I think a lot of sickles attacks on Meade stuck unfairly.

Maria not much changed, except the Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery manuals were up dated since the Battle of Waterloo 1815.

How do you not mention little round top most important moment of day 2

@@travisdavis6778 I think Longstreets countermarch that lasted all morning while trying to figure out where to start the attack from was vastly more important then the skirmish that took place on Little Round top- Basically the attack on the second day didn't start until somewhere between 3pm and 5pm and the rebels had gone on a long wild march during the day. Then there's the fact the union lines had shifted since the confederates had inspected the line at five that morning. the actual end of the union line for most of the day was devils den as sickles had led the third corps up to the peach orchard presumably to avoid another Hazel Grove situation. It wasn't until guvenor warren realized that the third corps had left the hill undefended that it became a big deal.

It never happened. It's just a dramatic moment made up in that other movie.

@@ed9492 It did happen. lol other documentaries mention the legendary charge. Also, the film "Gettysburg" is actually quite detailed and accurate :)

I suppose it's so overdone that LHFW decided to tell other parts of the story. And no, it didn't happen quite like "Killer Angels", "Gettysburg" or Burns' "Civil War" tells the story.

because while it did happen- the leader of the 13th Alabama col oaks stated that by the time the "bayonet charge" happened his troops were exhausted and pretty much had given up at that point. Chamberlain after the war had become mayor of Maine and ironically Oaks became mayor of alabama and they did each talk at length about what happening. Most people seem to think Chamberlain was an opportunist who talked about how heroic he was there and many reports have stated that it was actually a lieutenant who suggested it and started to have his troops attach bayonets and by the time the charge was actually ordered it was a fait accompli. I think the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. If you ever get a chance to go to gettysburg you can go to the 20th Maine monument its actually behind what would have been the front of little round top and its more on a spur then a actual high point. You can imagine when seeing it that its no where near as grand as the movie makes it out to be and understand why Lionworks would probably not show it that much.

200,000 African American fought in the United States Army during the Civil War. You should be worshiping them. They saved the Union that Lee, Davis and the Confederacy tried to destroy. God bless the United States Colored Troops. USCT.

@@willoutlaw4971 Yet 200 yrs later they don't care who died for who.

Terrible strategy of standing or walking while shooting.....no horsemen and others encircling ....men just getting killed.... terrible!

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Not hard, for many people they know the history before the movie came out. LBG's (especially from the North Guide station) rarely even went to the Round tops. The trails today to the saddle were almost non existent then. I don't like to mention the one Regiment that has a 20 in it. Shudder, there is more going on than the movie version.

For most of the second the the end of the union line was devils den