Thread by @pptsapper

ONE HOUR

I SAY AGAIN

ONE HOUR

1300 EST is kickoff of the original "Gettsyburg" - not the expanded edition

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IT BEGINS

with somehow 20th Maine officers making it onto Hancock's staff

Huh

RIP Kevin Conway. Buster wasn't real but you made him real for us

This opening pan over Pennsylvania and Maryland has part of my heart, I'm pretty sure

What a beautiful damn country

Ah "two brigades" of Federal cavalry... Harrison been drinking again, those are clearly two COMPANIES

Love the PA Infantry Regiment tho. Heavy columns. Sexxxxy

FAT REBEL, DRINK

I watched this movie with my dad SO MUCH growing up that I can literally hear his comments in my head through the film

Lee is confused about why Stuart is absent, so, drink

But also, Stuart was TRYING to get back

He just kept getting blocked by US cavalry

Drink twice for "colonel darlin"

Oh lawd

This gonna be a long day

The face that Chamberlain is making is EXACTLY my face when a platoon leader calls me with "so, sir, what you see happened was..."

Dammit, Buster gonna get us all hammered

And there's Tom, right in cue, with his Lawrence business

The Mainers finna make me drunk

Omg the absolute boss move of JLC , not even looking at the papers, just handing them to his adjutant brother

Straight power plays

Drink, anachronism.

Sergeant Tozier wasn't part of the 20th, he was one of the 2nd Maine "hotheads"

DAMMIT TOM, STOP CALLING HIM LAWRENCE

DRINK

This has just GOT to be Jeff Daniel's best role

THAT'S RIGHT WE CAN'T WIN THIS WAR WITH WEST POINTERS

lol at JLC's "flankers?"

Accurate tho

He probably had to look it up after

DAMMIT LAWRENCE, DRINK

Ohhhh man. Chamberlain's speech to the 2d Maine.

Dammit, I'm gonna tear up. Never fails.

"we are an army out to set other men free"

This speech is literally what the American ideal IS

"Here is the place to build a home... It is the idea that we all have *value*"

Professor of goddam rhetoric, so yeah, he got that silver tongue

Damn, I love Ellis Spear, too

He's gonna go on to command the regiment

Aaaaaaaand here comes Sam Elliot with the most badass entry

Ugh made me want to join the cavalry RIGHT AWAY

then I came to my senses

BUT STILL

You can hear the cicadas...iirc, '92 was a cicada year

Not sure if '63 was

So, uh, just take a drink

Take a shot

The literal only line a woman has in this

C Thomas Howell keeps slipping into a southern accent so drink

Tom Chamberlain is going to make us all drunk

Here's the literal best intelligence preparation of the battlefield that you'll ever see in film

Buford was the best S-2

Drink for the dust coming off his chest

It's the little things

Like the bugler sounding officer's call when Gamble rides up

Buford gives mission, commander's intent, key tasks, disengagement criteria

Also, Sam Elliot is actually the best

Also, you can watch every third man taking the horses of the other two

Yes, the beards are ridiculous, but there are some really good points of this movie

Lost Cause nonsense approaches as Lee gets all "God is on my side" so, drink

Cause Lee was doing a lot less "mmm, theology" and a lot more "I've got dysentery"

Courtesy of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, YOU'RE WELCOME

GIVE IT TO EM, CALEF

damn beautiful 3 inch ordnance rifles

Ok also drink

Because while Buford deployed his soldiers dismounted, they fought in waves of skirmishers rather than as line infantry

"it'll take em a little while to get online" is also what we say when the whole DOD teleworks

Saber clanking is a profoundly awesome background noise

Drink

AP Hill didn't wear a redshirt into battle, a Lost Cause myth. He wore it ONCE and then it somehow stuck

Damn whitworth bolts making their appearance a tad early... But we'll allow it

AND

REYNOLDS IS HERE

Reynolds, one of the best officers in the US Army, who just weeks ago turned down command of the Army of the Potomac

Ohhhhh I love me some agonized Harry Heth

Prating on like a 2LT that done fucked up

Also, drink for the gut on Harry Heth's flag bearer

Ugh and for Lee being confused af

Right by file into line...God, I love me some precision drill

Oh fuck, and here comes the Iron Brigade

Drink, just because they're badasses

Drink, Reynolds was hit by a stray bullet, not a sniper

This is the point in the movie where my dad would always rant about snipers, for some reason

Dan Butterfield DID like to write bugle calls

He wrote "Taps" for one

DAMMIT THOMAS DAVEE

DRINK

Also lol at "there's something going on"

God look at these liberal arts officers exchanging banter

And this is all we get to see of the XI Corps collapse

But not the I Corps insanely stubborn defense that bleeds Hill's Corps so badly that they're basically useless the rest of the battle

Weird mouthed staff officer is here, I see

Lee and Longstreet gonna disagree

Drink

Wanna know why no cannon are firing, Bobby?

Cause Wainwright's guns are firing by recoil and keeping yours at bay

Fucking a, US artillery SHINES in this battle

Anachronism, Tom doesn't meet these prisoners, Francis Channing Barlow does

Drink

Also, drink for Lose Cause bullshit

"Rights"

Rights to own black people

Oh, and why is this "John Henry" running away?

Probably because he was a freed black man, living in Pennsylvania, and Rebel cavalry rounded them up and enslaved them

There's your fucking chivalry for you

I absolutely believe that JLC would quote Shakespeare in some PA field

Also drink for colonel darlin

Also, if you're from Virginia, just start drinking non-stop from now until the end of the movie

Pretty sure this movie is hardest on those from Maine, Virginia, and Pennsylvania

Tom Berenger also plays an amazing Longstreet

Such a pragmatic realist

Poor Armistead

But. He made his bed. He took an oath. And then broke it.

Kemper is so well played

Poor Dick Garnett just wants to play some cards

Drink for Pickett's bullshit Lost Cause "gentleman's club" nonsense

MONUMENT SPOTTED ON CEMETERY RIDGE, DRINK

Buford literally just wants some sleep, he does not want a two-star reminiscing

Buford gonna make me all emotional tho

Drink for the idea that Culps or Cemetery Hill could've been taken that night, after Hancock the Superb had organized everythinggggg

Poor General Meade, only getting one appearance

Everyone getting hot and bothered about ground

Meade thinking about his Pipe Creek Line, probably

Meade is gonna bust his ass this battle, riding everywhere, being the commander. Lee gonna basically sit at HQ the whole time

That is a SHORT AP Hill

And Barksdale isn't crazy looking enough

Drink for "we should've freed the slaves and then fired on Fort Sumpter" because that's absurd Lost Cause nonsense

Father Corby and the incredibly diminished Irish Brigade with their beautiful trefoil flags mixed with the emerald green

Longstreet getting RIGHT to the point. "I swore an oath, too"

Lee: "there was always a higher duty to Virginia"

THAT'S NOT WHAT GEORGE H THOMAS SAID, OR YOUR NEPHEWS, OR BROTHER IN LAW

Suffice to say, drink.

TOM

drink

He was momma's fave, too

Strong Vincent with his riding crop, exercising mission command and going to where needed most

Fuck I love this movie

In reality, their other brother John was with them too, visiting, during a battle

Cause it's what Chamberlains do

Nice shot of GK Warren, the chief engineer, identifying key terrain

Vincent just knife handed

Goddam

He knife handing like a boss

"Now we'll see how professors fight"

AHHHHHHH

Poor 124th NY

The Orange Blossoms

Fighting in triangle field till their colonel gets shot

Michigan, NY, and PA, drink

60 rounds per man

That's 20 minutes of combat

That's not much

"we are the flank"

New York, drink

Poor Merrill boys

Ok now, look

If you're from New England

This next 20 minutes is basically yours

Captain Spear and his awesome pipe

That man has STYLE

Tom needs to clean his revolver. Too many sparks

My boy JLC giving clear and concise directions, under fire

Oh yes

NCOs executing like they do

Oh Andy Tozier

Too bad the movie doesn't show him firing, with the colors in the crook of his arm

Buster kills a dude we're gonna see come back in a bit so drink

Drink one for Strong Vincent

And Paddy O'Rourke
And Weed
And Hazlett

GodDAM can Ellis Spear deliver a volley

The sheer GRIT not to run when dozens of dudes with bayonets run at you

I mean shit dude

Just to sit there and fight close in

And plugging a hole with your own brother...

This is the most stressful part of the movie if you are an older sibling

Here it comes

"Let's fix Bayonets"

DRINNK

It's so damn beautiful

SEE THOSE GRAYBACKS RUN, SEE EM GO

Tom, for once not making us drink

Oh Buster.... we'll drink for you

Patrick Gorman plays a great Good

And also, apparently, Chris Evan's body double as Old Cap I'm Avengers: Endgame

Ugh Hood

That way around the right is really NOT open

The while slam damn VI Corps is in place

Everyone listening to Pickett tell war stories is like "dude you was on the FOB the whole time"

Uh, and yes, this is an accurate depiction of conversations that military people have

I can't actually hear this song without thinking of Lewis Armistead and Winfield Hancock anymore

Stuart's Mustache looks as alarmed as he is

The Chamberlain Bros on Big Round Top with coffee is a total mood

DAMMIT THOMAS

drink

Also you can see a road

Drink

Longstreet trying to explain reality to Lee is PAINFULLY real for so many officers and NCOs who have tried to explain reality to toxic and out of touch leaders

Also they're disagreeing so keep drinking

Also Lee left Antietam in the possession of the enemy so

You know what to do

Drink

The 20th Maine did not pull off Big Round Top and go to the center

Drink

Omg Longstreet locks his saber to his belt with the hilt facing in REVERSE WHICH IS CORRECT FOR THE MANUAL OF ARMS

well done Tom Berenger

They're disagreeing again

Drink

I mean, Lee's men did live him

That said

Just drink

Because fat reenactors

Oh EP Alexander

28yo here

Became a historian after the war

Hahhhahahaha no one is gonna keep US artillery silent

Can't be done

And now appearing

James Bond

Aka PETTIGREW

ITS LAZENBY - HE'S PETTIGREW

JAMES BONDDDDDDD

Longstreet draws a nice plan

But Henry Hunt has a different plan

It involves, like, some crazy gunnery

Huh, Pickett's charge seems to involve mostly... Non Virginians

Go figure, Virginia taking credit for something North Carolina does

It's kinda like

Everything

Like, this whole Chamberlain - Hancock exchange is apocryphal af, so, drink, but I also love the idea of it

Chamberlain TOTALLY bsing that answer

Having a liberal arts degree gives you that ability, kids

Also Meade and Hancock both said Lee's attack would hit the center so everyone drink

Two Lawrence's

Also

Drink for Buster.

They're all firing 1/4 charges which is why there isn't as much recoil

But you get the smoke. So much smoke

And waiiiit foooorrrr itttt

Hancock the Superb

KEN BURNS CAMEO, DRINK

Dick Garnett withdrew the Stonewall Brigade in 1862, saving it from destruction

But he withdrew it

And that didn't suit TJ Jackson

So he court martialed Garnett

Which is why he's mounted for this attack

To restore his honor

Which is why he will die

Btw, EP Alexander is absolutely correct here

And Harry Hunt isn't even firing at full volume, THAT'S how good US artillery is

And this is the hour where all the Virginians lose their livers

Lol for the glory of Virginia

And North Carolina and Mississippi and Alabama and Florida and South Carolina but noooooo only Virginia

All the Virginians playing by the rules are HAMMERED right now and should probably hydrate

This marvelous unopposed charge didn't happen

From the very moment they leave the woods, Harry Hunt invites them to his own personal party

Involving 20lb Parrott rifles on Cemetery Hill and 10lb Parrotts on Little Round Top

And MacGilverys 44 gun line that appears now

Literal brigades get shredded by this fire

There should be a monument to Henry Hunt in DC

Webb's brigade

They dgaf about these rebs

Cushing's guns beginning canister

"that's it Cushing, double CANISTER"

GET IT, ALONZO

GET IT VERMONTERS ON THE FLANK

Not shown; 8th Ohio flanking the rebel left and sending two brigades running

Poor Dick Garnett.

Fucking Stonewall Jackson and his stupid honor

Ted Turner, DRINK

Alex Webb leading that counterattack like a boss

Stephen Lang getting thrown by his horse was NOT planned btw

Well done to him for committing

The riderless horse

Goddam

Richard Jordan played Armistead.

Richard Jordan died of cancer during the production

This was his last role

And he did an INCREDIBLE job

I'll just be over here crying if anyone needs me

Kemper does not in fact die

He lives till 1895

"never let them see you run"

Uhhhhhh.

They literally just ran

Lee is shocked and confused

Drink.

Also

Fredericksburg

I was always REALLY happy about that horse getting up

Tom goes looking

And

THERE'S LAWRENCE

That last scene... The colors...

Cuts right to the heart

Can anyone here legally drive? Probs not.

Thanks to @AN_Goldstein who had this excellent idea for #Gettysdrink

I'm gonna go try to get my liver back in working order

Ok, now Gods and Generals

KIDDING

I'd literally die of alcohol poisoning

Because it's so bad