Prequel to Gettysburg (1993).

Originally released as a motion picture in 2003.

Based on the novel by Jeff Shaara.

Features: audio commentary, making of featurettes, historical accuracy featurettes, music videos, DVD-ROM features.

Director of photography, Kees van Oostrum ; editor, Corky Ehlers ; music composers, John Frizzell, Randy Edelman.

Jeff Daniels, Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall, Mira Sorvino, Kevin Conway, C. Thomas Howell, Frankie Faison, Jeremy London, Bruce Boxleitner.

Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states where he was born and raised. As Chamberlain, Jackson, and Lee are followed through the declaration of war and the battles at Manassas, Antietam, Frederickburg, and Chancellorsville.

MPAA rating: PG-13; for sustained battle sequences.

DVD, double-sided, NTSC, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.

DVD-ROM and online features on Side B require: installation of the InterActual player (included), PC with DVD-ROM drive (will not work on a Mac), Microsoft Windows 98SE or higher operating system, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, internet access.

For private home use only.

English dialogue ; optional English, French or Spanish subtitles ; closed-captioned.