Weather and Gettysburg (wrong in film)

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2005)

I note two interesting weather situations in the movie.
1) the trees appear to have fall foliage. Nope...The battle was July 1-3. No fall foliage in the real battle. Look close...you'll see fall foliage in some scenes.
2) More importantly, "breath" (steam) seems to be coming out of the mouths of the 20th Maine particularly at the end of the charge scene when Chamberlain is called to look at his wounded Sergent. Take a good look..yep..breath is there when the Sergent is laying there etc. Can't have that on July 2nd, the 2nd day of the battle! The actual battle for the 20th Maine was late in the day too. The filming must have been done in the fall on a cool morning for that scene! History records the Gettysburg battle as being in warm/hot weather with rain the day after on July 4th.