History Funny / Gettysburg

-->(''A shell explodes just a few feet away'')

* This exchange between two Confederate officers:
-->'''Dick''': "How are you, Lou?"
-->''An artillery shell explodes just a few feet away.''
-->'''Lou''': [[CasualDangerDialogue "I'm fine, Dick."]]

** [Soldier]: I'm moving these Rebs with an empty musket.
** {Chamberlain}: Sh. Not so loud.

*** A bit of a GeniusBonus, it's even funnier as a TakeThat to George [=McClellan=] (Who graduated first in his class in that year, but ultimately proved to be a rather ineffective field commander), though the West Point Class of 1846 also included Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and a dozen other officers of both sides.

**** Jackson himself had been regarded as a dumb country bumpkin at West Point, due to his origins as an orphan in rural western Virginia, and his performance at the Academy was considered mediocre at best. He was not taken seriously until the Mexican War, when it was [[TookALevelInBadass discovered that he was utterly fearless,had an uncanny talent for field command in combat, and could instinctively read a tactical situation and respond appropriately]]. As that war faded from memory, Jackson was again regarded as simple-minded and eccentric (Spending much of the time between wars as a decidedly mediocre math teacher at VMI didn't help), [[BadassDecay even if he was highly-skilled, bilingual, and one of the most decorated war heroes in American History to that point]]. Once Jackson had another war to fight, his negative reputation disappeared again.

*** And then Longstreet's exasperated eye roll over the whole thing as he walks away.

**** Jackson himself had been regarded as a dumb country bumpkin at West Point, due to his origins as an orphan in rural western Virginia, and his performance at the Academy was considered mediocre at best. He was not taken seriously until the Mexican War, when it was [[TookALevelInBadass discovered that he was utterly fearless,had an uncanny talent for field command in combat, and could instinctively read a tactical situation and respond appropriately]]. As that war faded from memory, Jackson was again regarded as simple-minded and eccentric, [[BadassDecay even if he was highly-skilled, bilingual, and one of the most decorated war heroes in American History to that point]]. Once Jackson had another war to fight, his negative reputation disappeared again.

*** A bit of a GeniusBonus, it's even funnier as a TakeThat to George [=McClellan=] (Who graduated first in his class in that year, but ultimately proved to be a rather ineffective field commander), though the West Point Class of 1846 also included Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and a dozen other officers of both sides.

*** A bit of a GeniusBonus, it's even funnier as a TakeThat to George [=McClellan=], though the West Point Class of 1846 also included Thomas Jackson and a dozen other officers of both sides.

*** The following argument against evolution: while one could suggest that Pickett or Armistead might be descended from an ape, no one would ever suggest that General Lee is descended from an ape.

*** As Armistead and Longstreet walk away, Kemper can be heard asking how many of Pickett's relatives are apes.

*** A bit of a GeniusBonus, it's even funnier as a TakeThat George McClellan, though the West Point Class of 1846 also included Thomas Jackson and a dozen other officers of both sides.

Armistead and Pickett's evolution debate. "George, all science trembles before the searing logic of your fiery intellect."