"........ the famous charge of Chamberlain's Maine men as portrayed in the movie Gettysburg, Tucker claims, was fiction. Oates wrote after the battle that the Alabamians were withdrawing under fire when the Maine regiment left their earthworks and retook lost ground downslope, nothing more."
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