When the video starts, the credits are played through on the screen. From the very beginning, we see that extra special care has been taken to match each main actor with the factual main character being portrayed. This is shown through first displaying an image of the actual soldier, and then smoothly substituting it with the image of the modelling actor dressed up as that soldier. Through this method, it is obvious from the very start, that attention-to-detail is being observed.

The actual film starts by bringing the audience up-to-date on events of the time. We hear that in June 1863, the Southern Confederate (Rebel) Army, 70,000 strong, under the leadership of General Robert Edward Lee, has slipped across the Potomac River to commence the invasion of the north. They have used the mountains for screening and their ob

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