, none of which wish to continue fighting. When the men arrive none of the new soldiers speak, and neither of them even moves. Chamberlain prepares a speech to rally the new men up and sways nearly every one of them to fight for him. General Buford of the Union army arrives in Gettysburg on cemetery hill which overlooks the town; he sees the rebels arriving in the town and he sends a message to his commander as well as to his fellow General John Reynolds, who is about a day's march behind Buford, requesting that he speed up his journey because Buford is fearful of an attack by the rebels in the next morning. As the Rebels come in they see unknown enemies on the hill and fall back to prepare a plan.
             The next day the rebels attack and are hit hard by the union line who had been preparing for something like this to happen. Buford orders his men to create a line on the west front; however, when the rebels make their second attack the union takes a hard hit. As the South pulls back to regroup Reynolds arrives and is shocked by the intensity of the fight so he calls to request more support from General Meade, the commander of the Union Army. Reynolds is then shot in the cross fire and he is killed that moment. The rebels advance on the north and start to push them back. Heth, a rebel officer, is hurt in the attack. Longstreet suggests to Lee that they block off the Union from Washington D.C.; however Lee denies the request for the first of many times.
             Chamberlain and his men are on their way to Gettysburg to support Buford and his men. Longstreet is irritated that Lee won't listen to him, and then he becomes interested in the hills which the union controls and wants to take them over. Buford orders his men to prepare for another battle the next day. Chamberlain encounters a runaway slave and strongly expresses a theme of fighting for equal rights when he expresses his thoughts about how blacks and whites are equals. Even th...