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No, he doesn't. The film was about bond that was between them. Everything they endured... not knowing if they would survive... and doing so... is why they fell in love with each other. He was there for her through the worst and saved her life several times, as she saved his. Maybe one day you will understand.
Hi Jeffyoung1,
I don't know what you've learned about Confederate uniforms since you wrote this post but there are some important elements you left out of your observations.
The Confederate Congress was in discussions about military uniforms in April 1861. On June 6, General Order #4 mandated all officers to wear double-breasted frock coats. The order also established the standing collar insignia and sleeve braids we are so familiar with on rebel officer's coats. I realize communications were much slower in those days but I think it may have been possible for the government in Richmond- 100 miles from and 6 weeks before the battle of 1st Bull Run- to have communicated the order to the army in the field.
Regarding the 1861 uniforms of Jackson and Stuart and their staff officers specifically, these very well may have been state army uniforms. Virginia, like other states, had a state army in those days. I'm not sure if this is the equivalent of a state militia or if the state army preceded the war. I believe it did. For one thing, Jackson resigned from the US army in 1851 and became a professor at the Virginia Military Institute. I think this would have been part of the Virginia army. In the scene where he first appears in the film teaching a class, his belt buckle is Virginia state. The caption "US Army" on screen is incorrect. Besides that, James P. Smith and Sandie Pendleton, Jackson's adjutants, were never in the US Army before the war and they are wearing blue uniforms at 1st Bull Run... state uniforms. I believe other Confederate states had blue uniforms as well. Or at least, some individual regiments did.
Gods & Generals did some great things to make sure uniforms and period civilian clothes were accurate. But this film did a very poor job with history otherwise. Too bad.
If you have to ask that question, the entire movie went over you head.
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