My family just came back from a two-week vacation where we visited everything from two national parks to Colonial Williamsburg to the beaches along the Chesapeake Bay. However, the highlight of the trip was our final stop, two days in Gettysburg, the site of one of the most consequential battles of the American Civil War and one of the bloodiest confrontations in the nation’s history.
When I came home, one of the first things I did was to finally watch Ronald F. Maxwell’s Gettysburg, a four-hour epic recounting the heroics, devastation, and importance of the three-day battle between Union and Confederate forces in July 1863. And you know what? I’m so glad I waited so long to watch one of the most decorated Civil War films of all time. Here’s why…
