Two things...

Rating: 10/10 (15 November 2010)

Gettsyburg is damn close to perfect. The story is as accurate as filmmakers could do it. Love that. It's easy to appreciate some features of the battle when viewed in the perspective of the terrain.
Pickett's charge, my god, I definitely don't understand what prompted Lee to think that was the best idea he had available.
Two things that make me crazy in military movies (exNavy speaking).
1. Someone should teach actors how to salute. I know it was different then, but I doubt it was the sloppy wave actors do.
2. The word is cavalry. Caval-ry. As in Cheval(horse). Calvary is a hill outside Jerusalem where they hung a guy on a wooden cross. JEB Stuart and Buford commanded caval-ry troopers. Listen for it and you'll see what I mean.