Civil War Historian Rates 9 American Civil War Battles In Movies | How Real Is It? | Insider

Garry is a national treasure! He is an expert’s expert and his enthusiasm and knowledge are unparalleled. If you ever get the chance to take a tour with him, do it. I’ve never met someone who can run around a battlefield for 7 hours and somehow have more energy at the end than at the beginning.

If y'all don't know about Gary, get ready for a treat. The man is an absolute legend in the Civil War enthusiast community, there's arguably nobody as knowledgeable and enthusiastic about sharing that knowledge. I've been on a tour of Gettysburg with this gentleman and it was an EXCELLENT experience. This is the expert you want, when talking about the American Civil War. Bravo, Insider. Once again, finding an extraordinary expert to present a breakdown video.

He gives tours at more that 50 battlefields. Yeah I think he might somehow be overqualified to be just considered an expert. Edit: Being overqualified as an expert was mostly just a joke. My bad for not adding a lol. :)

Glory left me in tears, and I remember wanting so badly for it to be at least a respectable representation of the 54th’s efforts. I’m so glad to see it be ‘not perfect, but perfect enough.’

'Glory' is one of my favourite war movies ever made. The acting, writing, cinematography, and direction is amazing!

Denzel's character in Glory is based on William Carney, who, unlike his film counterpart, survived the batte. He went on to be the first Black recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor.

The director of Cold Mountain was spot on with their details. The soldier who lit the fuse had 48 on his cap. The tunnel was dug by the 48th Pennsylvania. Coal miners from Schuylkill County Pa.

I see Garry Adelman, I click. I was fortunate to see him at the 160th Antietam after we walked the Cornfield fight, and even experienced living historians were in awe of him. Such a cool guy!

6:59 to 8:44 GLORY's depiction of the Battle of Antietam set the standards for how American Civil War battles are portrayed in modern cinema.

I'm so glad Garry gave Glory a 9/10, my favorite movie depicting the era of US civil war

00:31 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1967) 03:07 Free State of Jones (2016) 04:42 Emancipation (2022) 06:59 Glory (1989) 09:58 Lincoln (2012) 11:18 Dances with Wolves (1990) 13:40 Gettysburg (1993) 16:04 Cold Mountain (2003) 18:42 Sahara (2005)

You can reload a musket with the socket bayonet on; the socket bayonet was designed to allow the musketeer to do so for over a hundred years by the time of the ACW.

I'm glad they showed "BAYONETS!" My absolute favorite scene in any civil war movie

Garry Adelman is a walking encyclopedia of the American Civil War. I’ve seen this guy give a 2-hour walking tour of Gettysburg. He spoke for the entire 2 hours spitting out facts of everything that happened there.

If i remember my movie trivia correctly. The reason that they didn't film the "Little round top" part of the Gettysburg movie in the actual place was because of the memorial placed there. The movie was unique in that it was the only time (if my memory serves) that a movie was allowed to be filmed on the actual location of the battle. And with hundreds of volounteer historical reenactors.. I love that film.. Also, Jeff Daniels truly was born to portray colonel Chamberlain..

One thing that i think it was not mentioned was the gunpowder smoke and how it affected infantry combat. We often see in civil war movies lines exchanging fire at short distance or soldiers still marching slowly even when they get near the enemies. (this is mostly because movies tend to "concentrate" fighting that actually took up more space) This type of fighting was possible also because of how much smoke the massive and concentrated use of gunpowder made, most times you fired in the GENERAL DIRECTION of your enemy, and by command. since soldiers could not actually see the enemy formations until they were very close, the coordination of a battle back then was done using scores of cavalrymen roaming the battle, scouting and giving reports and orders of what was going on and what to do back and forth. I ve read numerous accounts of this my favorite being in the "recollections of rifleman harris" (although from the napoleonic wars) "The only complaint that i have with our present system of fighting is that once the battle has started, the common soldier has no more knowledge of what goes on around him than the very dead lying on the ground" (something like that) Loved this video and cheers from Italy.

I was in ROTC in the mid 80s. Our classes in Military History and Military Science had a lot of emphasis on the US Civil War as the tactics and strategies used on both sides were starting to diverge from the way that Armies had previously fought. WWI was also a major turning point. There is discussion among military historians whether the Civil War or WWI was the advent of modern warfare. Personally, I think the tactics started during the Civil War, and the technology available 50 years later made it the turning point for "industrial warfare".

I'm really glad to see that Glory, an all time fave, ranked high for accuracy (at least for the scenes being scrutinized). And I could listen to Garry talk about the historic battles all day long.

Gary is a legend thank you for all your work with the American battlefield trust!

The thing that bugged me the most in that scene in Dances With Wolves is that the general has three stars on his shoulders. There were no lieutenant generals in the US Army at that time.