By this time I think Robert E. Lee knew they couldn't win so he ordered Picketts charge to end the war one way or another. Especially after he witness the slaughterat Fredericksburg.

It's TRIMBLE, not TREMBLE

I always thought the phrase went like; "We shall speak no more of this", not, "Let us speak no more of this."

Hamlet was crazy, but the only time he was half as evil as this was when he drove Ophelia to suicide.

Lee was way over confident because he hadn't lost a battle until Gettysburg

I sometimes wonder how differently the war would have went if it was ran by men like General Longstreet and General Hood. It seemed like President Jefferson Davis only favored those that allowed him to micromanage their Armies and Corps.

Martin Sheen as General Lee??!!! Really?! Who in the hell cast this part?!! What a joke!

Madness! Madness!!

General Lee made a dire mistake not listening to Longstreet had general Jackson been there I believe general Lee would have listened to him and the military strategy would have been different

This movie and Sheen's performance make Lee look like a delusional, egomaniacal sociopath. And who knows - maybe he was. I'm not sure the decisions he made at Gettysburg are all that defensible.

It'd being seemed liked the Union Army had been in the critically situation that's might them to lost war to Federation Army's that'd being advanced day by day without any hurdle from the remaining balanced of the Union Army reassemble gathering.

Marching on open ground never strikes me as a good idea.

I wonder if Lee's being somewhat sharp with Longstreet had been brought forward by his frustration with Stuart's Cavalry and Ewell's inability to take the high ground on day one.

Everyone keeps pointing out how Lee was second in his class at WP. There was only 45 other students. Today there's over a thousand. Lee wouldn't be top 300.

The mans name was Trimble.

Haha, the rebels lost. 😂

As Stoic as thay we're I wonder if this Conversation would have taken place Lee was like a God ,the south had already won Numerous battles.

Lee knew better, he wanted to be over.

Lee:Genneral i want you to run toward that ridge across that field and attack. Longstreet: Thats open ground theyll mow us all down. Lee: Let the attack begin. Longstreet: But sir... Lee: No sir! There is no time!

I think Lee was in denial. He knew deep inside it was going to be a disaster but his mind kept thinking it would succeed. If that makes any sense.

Martin Shean,as General Lee is epic

When Ego meets common sense, Lee was an arrogant prat

Sunk cost fallacy

Lee had obviously read "The One-Minute Manager". Chokes me up every time.

This scene, and Jeff Daniel's Chamberlain speech to his troops, were superb!

I do love this movie the glazing of Hancock is crazy tho

I can't help but imagine how short the American civil war would have been if Lee had accepted the offer to take command of the Federal, army, from Lincoln,with all the resources of the North and Lee's tactical genius, along with his aggressive nature as a commander!

*They were not weak in the center. Winfield Scott Hancock was right there.*

There is at excellent video from the US Ear College on historical reporting and the facts, and he used this video as an example. Three things: 1. General Ewell outranked General Trimble and was under no obligation to explain his decisions to him. 2, What troops were available? Rodes division had shown up in the morning and fought all day. Early's division had shown up in the afternoon and had fought hard. Johnson's division had spent the day marching to Gettysburg and didn't arrive until after night had fallen. 3. Ewell had sent out two scouting parties of his own: One group had climbed Culp's Hill until the ran into an ambush.. The other group searched east of town and discovered Federal troops (XII corps) marching towards Gettysburg. According to the scouts these troops would appear behind whatever confederate troops were attacking the hill. This was wrong because scouts mis-identified the road but Ewell didn't know that.

I didn't know you could render video with just 4 pixels.

Napoleon also suffered losses and most military strategies as taught at West Point were his models and he was seldom defeated on the battlefield !!!

Longstreet: what could possibly go wrong? I drew up the battle plan in the dirt and everything!

Gettysburg was the price the CSA paid for Lee

thank god for union commander Buford who not only scouted the high ground positions that later would break the confederate advances but also delayed the rebel vanguard long enough for the unions forces to entrench those hills and high elevations which helped to win the day.

Jackson would've took it.Wouldn't have changed anything.

And he hid in the rear and watched everyone die.

I find it so interesting that people on both sides were praying to the same God, and I will leave my poor judgment of that made up God out of the 18,000 gods mankind has made up ...

God set the rebels up to lose.

Longstreet at 2:14 is thinking, “this muthaf*kka gone crazy”

Didn't Tom Berenger say "we need every swinging dick in the field" in this movie?

Robert E Lee: a fine leader, a mediocre general who looked good against pitiful Union generals and obsessed too much over defending his beloved Virginia.

The next line as Lee rode away should’ve been “He didn’t listen to a word I said”

I’m not sure how accurate the movie showed the lead up to the charge. But it would have seemed like the Reb’s should have formed up and advanced while their own cannons were still firing. With the gap shown in the film - a disciplined army would be able to recover and prepare for an assault.

Lee realized at this point the situation was Do or Die/ you dont march an army all the way into Pennsylvania and turn around and go home without attempting an objective !!!

It wasn't just the preceding victories and miraculous escapes that made Lee overestimate their abilities. He was genuinely sick of the killing. He was desperately sick of it.

"when you attack you must hold nothing back, you must commit yourself totally'

You cannot disengage and go around a watchful foe without a large Calvary force to screen your movements or the foe will strike your force while your army is on the move. Stuart still wasn’t on the field on the start of day one - Longstreet was asking for the impossible

How fake was that beard?

Every time I watch this movie I keep hoping the outcome will be different, but sadly it never is.

I read some diaries of Confederate soldiers stored in the archives at the Army Heritage and Education Center located adjacent to the Army War College - Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, PA. The letters stated if General Jackson were alive and commanding that Corps.....they would have taken the hill and continued on to Washington, D.C. Yes, Chancellorsville was a victory for the Confederate Army....but a very costly " Pyrrhic" victory that began the defeat of the Army of Northern Virginia.