IIRC, the Turner Broadcasting people made the movie _Gettysburg_ on a
shoestring budget. The reenacters were basically volunteers who
received a few freebies as token recognition of their efforts. From what
I’ve heard, a lot of those guys spent two or three weeks of their vacation
time hanging around the location, waiting for the movie people to set up
or run several takes. Note that Pickett’s charge (I prefer
Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble’s charge, but that’s another topic) in the film
comes very close to lasting as long as the actual charge on 3 July 1863.

BTW, many historians have observed that Robert E. Lee was not himself
at Gettysburg. Perhaps he was using Martin Sheen as a stand-in.

Dane Hartgrove