It's been years since I saw this mini-series, but I seem to recall a scene where a crazy reb general is wandering the battlefield after a major battle killing off the dying union soldiers by impaling them on his sword, while humming some tune...was this in the movie?
shareYes it was. I forget the officer's name but he was played by the late Warren Oats. Seems he went a little nuts after his son, while commanding a battery, was killed (from artillery fire beign directed from a union balloon). The tune he was whisteling I believe was the hymn "Rock of Ages". He's also responsible for the sabre wound that eventually cost Jonas Steele (Stacy Keach) his arm after the battle of the Wilderness.
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Oh Gravity, thou art a heartless b****
At least according to the novelization, he was Welles, the preacher who was with the two slave-catchers who killed Jonathon, Matthew's friend, and the father of a young artillery officer who died earlier in the film. As a Confederate major, he went around killing the wounded before Jonas shot him in the head at the Wilderness...
shareWarren Oates played Preacher Welles who was later Major (not general) Welles. He makes his first appearance before the war during the party at the Geysers when he is assisting two slave catchers who are chasing a runaway slave family. Later after his son Homer is killed by Union artillery fire he snaps and after battles he murders wounded Union troops with his saber. Jonas Steele kills him.
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