Bret Devereaux

Once again, it's an argument removing agency from a group. Namely the I, XI, and XII Corps with Generals Hancock and Howard who very rapidly turned both those hills into bulwarks, and would have made it another Malvern Hill. & proceeded to do so in the next few days.

The largest division of the XI corps had remained in reserve on Cemetery Hill and the I Corps artillery, some of the best in the Army of the Potomac, had mostly made it out of its fight intact Attacking would have been a horrible idea

Shaara and Turner taking the massive leap of having Longstreet say "we should've freed the slaves THEN fired on Fort Sumter" This is a ridiculous statement. Only under intense duress at the end of the war did a few rebels imagine freeing a few slaves to try to save everything

Good ol Father Corby praying with the Irish Brigade right before it went and got cut into even tinier pieces than it was at the beginning, with like 100 guys per regiment

Ah, and Longstreet bringing up the troublesome "oath" problem that he and Lee violated Lee and his "there was always a higher duty to Virginia" That's not what half your family said, traitor-face

Col. Strong Vincent. God, what a fantastic name for an outstanding leader. A PA lawyer who took it on his own initiative to move his brigade to Little Round Top without orders, risking court martial

Too bad the movie omits Sgt Tozier, the color bearer, the moment where he is standing alone on the rock, with the colors in the crook of his arm, firing a rifle like a BAMF

Much of this fighting is taken directly from Chamberlain's own memoir "Through Blood and Fire at Gettysburg," notably using his own brother to plug a hole in the line and oftentimes seeing more of the enemy around him than his own men