SAGA OF WESTERN MAN: THE ROAD TO GETTYSBURG (TV)
Summary
One in this series of irregularly scheduled programs which examine significant events in the history of western civilization through dramatic re-creation. Through the diaries and letters of soldier participants, this documentary focuses on the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863), that "very bloody affair" which became the turning point of the Civil War. Highlights of this program include the following: Gettysburg today; life in the northern and southern United States in 1860; slavery and the abolitionists; the Republican Party; President Lincoln, the secession of South Carolina, and the beginning of the Civil War; the views of the Union and Confederate soldiers at the beginning of the war; the armies of the South and North -- uniforms, equipment; medical knowledge of the day; leisure activities of recruits; military training; Union and Confederate soldiers on facing death; January 1, 1863, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and the enlisting of black soldiers; northern factories' production of guns and ammunition; Gen. George G. Meade of the Union Army and Gen. Robert E. Lee of the South; the soldiers' sense of humor; Lee leads army of 89,000 north into Pennsylvania; July 1, 1863: the Battle of Gettysburg begins and soldiers' eyewitness accounts of the fighting; July 3, 1863, a re-enactment of Pickett's charge; July 4, 1863, Lee breaks engagement and heads south; 51,000 casualties on both sides; and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the Gettysburg Memorial.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: December 9, 1968 Monday 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:51:55
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T82:0723
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Blacks in war; Gettysburg Address; Gettysburg, Battle of; Gettysburg Memorial; History; Memorials; Republican Party - 1860; Slavery; U S - History - Civil War
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1963-1969
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- John H. Secondari … Executive Producer, Producer, Writer, Narrator
- Helen Jean Rogers … Producer
- Margot Winchester … Associate Producer
- John F. Hughes … Director
- Ulpio Minucci … Music by
- David Carradine … Cast, the Rebel, Voice
- Kevin McCarthy … Cast, the Yank, Voice
- George G. Meade
- G.E. Pickett
- Secondari, Helen Jean (See also: Rogers, Helen Jean)
- Abraham Lincoln
- Robert E. Lee