Ten years ago filmmaker Ronald F. Maxwell and media mogul Ted Turner, along with an army of Civil War re-enactors and an excellent cast headed by Martin Sheen as Robert E. Lee, presented a 255-minute adaptation of Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Killer Angels. Gettysburg was a magnificent if flawed epic about the decisive battle of the war that stayed faithful to the original and showed leaders on both sides, illuminating the causes of the conflict, military strategies and tactics, personalities and motivations of the combatants and the terrible cost in human lives. Maxwell and company have departed greatly from the material to place more emphasis on civilians and a mostly gushing portrait of the Confederacy's Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

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