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Award-winning filmmaker Robert Child revisits one of his favorite historical topics in this film that offers an intimate look at the Battle of Gettysburg as presented by the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee and featuring the grand-scale 140th Gettysburg Battle Reenactment. The use of Union and Confederate commander diaries, dispatches, and after-battle reports, as well as shooting locations that include the Lutheran Theological Seminary and White House of the Confederacy, ensure that every detail is historically accurate, a stirring soundtrack by composer Nicholas Palmer accompanies some of the most authentic Civil War battle footage ever filmed.