A Civil War gem recently hunted down on eBay for a second look after 54 years, this is an inspired historical movie about the day the Confederates reigned down on the Yankee town of St Alban's and delivered an overdue lesson to the smug northerners who were celebrating Sherman's criminal march through Georgia.
Based on history, a group of Confederates who'd escaped from a Union prison in New York drift down from Canada to "bring the war home" to the north, a thousand miles from where Union soldiers were burning and looting the Southern states. The town of St. Alban's suffers a small lesson about the toll of war - something they thought only distant neighbors need endure.
The one inaccuracy in the film is in showing St Alban's in flames. In fact, burning the town was planned but never actually happened, save for one small shed that was torched.
Based on history, a group of Confederates who'd escaped from a Union prison in New York drift down from Canada to "bring the war home" to the north, a thousand miles from where Union soldiers were burning and looting the Southern states. The town of St. Alban's suffers a small lesson about the toll of war - something they thought only distant neighbors need endure.
The one inaccuracy in the film is in showing St Alban's in flames. In fact, burning the town was planned but never actually happened, save for one small shed that was torched.