BOLIVAR HEIGHTS

This is where Jackson trained his command. I studied Kurosawa's films very carefully to get the right graphics in place for the set layouts. We had so many battles with large formations of men in them and in my opinion no one got this better than Kurasawa.

This is the reverse angle. As you can, see careful attention is given to the position and staging of the background to the foreground.

STONEWALL JACKSON'S HOUSE

In all cases careful attention was paid to actual historical reference and detail. This set was built on stage.

JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN'S CLASSROOM

This was built on stage and would be his classroom at Boudoin College in Maine.

GENERAL HOOKER'S HQ

This is an exact representation of the historical site. Here we see the rout of Federal troops at Chancellor's Crossing. This happened right in front of Hooker's HQ.

This is the same set at night before the Union Army occupied it. I built this area near several of our battlefields to help consolidate the movie in terms of moving and locations.

CAMP MASON

This is where Chamberlain trained his men. Notice the tents in the upper right of the picture -- this type of staging and the imagery it creates is again my nod to Kurosawa. As you will see in the following frames, this set is shootable all the way back into the BG.

This is the encampment on top of the hill in the previous frame.

We are well into the set here--those tents are the same ones that are up on the hill in the first picture in the series.

UNION ARMY CAMP

There was nothing small in this movie -- this is the beginning of the end of the Union Army at Chancellorsville.

BEAL'S HOUSE IN FREDICKSBERG

Period details -- I had the wallpaper made. This was one of the stage sets.

BEAL HOUSE BASEMENT

This set was also built on stage. This is where the family weathers the bombardment of Fredericksburg.

This is the same set under Union occupation -- it is serving as a field hospital. This set was fully built and dressed to the street outside (on stage).

GUINEY STATION

I laid out this set to mask the Baltimore city skyline -- this allowed the use of the period train that was in storage about 1/2 mile away.

FORD THEATRE

J. W. Booth playing Julius Caesar.

LEE AND JACKSON MEET

They were many interstitial scenes like this in the movie. Many were set up on the fly or shot on stage like this one.

US ARSENAL AT HARPER'S FERRY

This set was built near some of our battlefield locations -- everything is built including the railroad cars and rolling stock.

PIEDMONT RAILHEAD

I was able to rearrange the Harper's Ferry set and shoot in another direction to achieve this scene. We were able to move across the road to one of our battlefield locations, which gave me the time to do this.

CONFEDERATE FIELD HOSTPITAL

This set was built into one of the main camp sets.

Even though this is shot on stage you still get deep background even in this two-shot.

GENERAL BURNSIDE'S HQ

This is General Burnsides staff headquarters at Chatham Hill. Again the wallpaper is made for this set. I wanted the look of this set to be very dark and foreboding.

CONFEDERATE COMMAND ABOVE FREDICKSBERG

MOSS NECK

This is General Jackson's Camp at Moss Neck. I added the Portico on the back of the house. In our story a large Confederate camp would grow around it.

PONTOON BRIDGE OVER THE RAPPAHANNOCK

This is the real deal -- this bridge was engineered using the actual Union Army specs of 1860.

FEDERAL WINTER CAMP

Many sets of this size were required by the story. One of the tricks I used here was to put the Confederate and Union sets back to back and use each as the other's BG.