Same as Shenandoah (1965)?

Rating: Null/10 (26 February 2005)

It seems to me that the Patriot is an exact remake of Shenandoah, yet nobody alludes to this. Am I wrong or is it a remake? Anybody know for sure? I particularly liked both versions and the Patroit brings up to date some of the realism possibilities of latter day technologies. Gibson showed the same resoluteness in his beliefs that Stewart did 25 years earlier. I only wish the Patriot could have had Katherine Ross's beauty, which added a lot to Shenandoah. But I will be very surprised if the two stories did not come from the same original novel, short story, or idea. Hasn't anyone else out there seen this similarity? Ward in Chicago.