03-29-2008, 03:35 AM
It would be hard to get more innacurate than that Golden Age of Hollywood classic, "They Died With Their Boots On," in which Winfield Scott (Sidney Greenstreet) was the Union commander in chief throughout the Civil War and Custer (Erroll Flynn) saved the day for the Union at Gettysburg (which was fought on terrain amazingly like Southern California) with repeated cavalry charges before being wounded by a Reb armed with an 1873 Colt. And that was long before the Little Bighorn! Still one of my favorite movies of that era, though, silly as it was.
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