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...with few letdowns. There are unforgettable climaxes: 1) Scarlett shooting the Yankee "deserter" ("deserter" is a concession to Northern protest: in the book he is one of Sherman's raiders) ; 2) the scene of mass desolation as the quietly weeping people of Atlanta read the casualty lists after Gettysburg. Audiences are jerked out of their seats when the mood of defeat is smashed triumphantly as a band bursts into Dixie. By great cinema craft, it is the first time the whole of Dixie is heard in the picture...
...First Minnesota Regiment-strong, nice boys, but gun fodder-went into the Battle of Gettysburg 262 strong. The carnage was cruel: to 85% came death or wounds. But at no time in the Civil War did any unit of more than 1,000 men suffer higher than 20% casualties. That was when war was still in the mule and carbine stage. But changes in war technique have not changed an old military axiom: you cannot expect a unit which has lost more than one man in five to continue effective. It must be withdrawn from action, given two months...
Hellzapoppin. A vaudevillainous cross between a fire in a lunatic asylum and the third day at Gettysburg (TIME...
TIME, Feb. 6, Foreign News, p. 15. "It took the Wilderness and Shiloh, as well as Gettysburg to finish the U. S. Civil...
...battle of Shiloh was at least a partial victory for the Confederate States, and was certainly prior to that of Gettysburg. Might it not be more historically accurate to say that it took "overwhelming superiority of material" (TIME, p. 14, same issue) to win the U. S. Civil War (War Between the States) as it took to win the Spanish Civil War (War between the Ideologies...