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- The Battle of Shiloh documentary takes the viewer to the fields of western Tennessee. They are filled with soldiers. Thousands of soldier reenactors set up camps and cook on open fires. Horses are everywhere. The scene looks like 1862 with men pitching tents and cleaning rifles. The documentary covers the two day 150th anniversary reenactment of the Battle of Shiloh. Approximately 140 cannons form long booming lines that cause the field to thunder. Long lines of blue and gray infantry march across the fields on a collision course. These soldiers recreate battle movements of the original Hornet's Nest, Peach Orchard, Ruggles Line, Wheat Field and more. There are two DVDs in this set. DVD 1 provides highlights of the two-day reenactment plus it includes a brief tour of the Shiloh National Battlefield Park. DVD 2 takes the viewer on a tour of the Confederate and Federal camps, the sutlers area and the Saturday night dance. It also includes substantial coverage of Battery C, 3rd Iowa Independent Regiment of Light Artillery. Other units featured throughout the film include the Alamo Rifles, the Razorback Flying Battery and Burroughs' Battery.
- An account of the birth and development of the United States.
- Acclaimed journalist Frye Gaillard wades into the heritage-vs-hate debate about how we view the Confederacy with a first-person memoir. The former reporter for The Charlotte Observer and author of over 20 books on the history and culture of the South reflects on his own family's 250-year history of membership in the Southern aristocracy which included owning hundreds of slaves. The film is a parallel journey. Through his letters to and from home it follows the war through the eyes of Gaillard's great uncle Franklin, a Confederate officer who fought with Robert E. Lee through every major battle from Bull Run to The Wilderness. It simultaneously traces Gaillard's life long struggle through his distinguished career to "navigate" his "way into and through the tangled web" of his "own conscience and heritage." "My own generation, "he writes "was perhaps the last that was raised on stories of gallantry and courage. Oddly, mine was also one of the first to view the Civil War through the lens of civil rights. "Frye Gaillard is the recipient of numerous awards for writing, including The Lillian Smith Book Award for best Southern non-fiction and the Humanitarian Award, presented by the NAACP Legal and Educational Fund for writing on the subject of civil rights. The film is an adaptation of his 2015 book by the same name.