For the record, each person interviewed on camera was asked to read the Gettysburg with their own style and inflections. Each one had their own perspective and emphasis on specific words. We edited based on the emotion of the reading, not the “correct” or “incorrect” inflections.

Regarding the dead of Gettysburg, Lincoln was never ever referring to only the union who died at Gettysburg. But unlike others who wanted him to give a speech about crushing the Confederacy, he chose to speak about a new birth of freedom. He never refers to THEM or US.

To me, this video is about an incredibly inspirational speech read by some of the best voiceover talent in the country, written by the greatest President and scored by one of the greatest composers. I hope you can all watch it for what it is.

I doubt if the photographers felt triumphant, but I expect they knew that their editors would. It was a sure way to sell a picture. They even dragged some of the corpses around to make the pictures more dramatic.

Can’t blame them too much, I suppose. They rarely had access to Rebs, otherwise.

Life magazine, during WW2, often ran pictures of dead Japanese and Germans. They only did it once (IIRC) with an American—one dead GI partly covered by the sand of a Pacific beach from which the tide had receded. Raised a furor.

I had orignially linked to the post you noted above, but didn’t want anyone bitching at me for leading them to an article that mentioned Beck.

Thanks for the mention.