Pharaoh's Army

#1 11-07-2003, 12:40 AM

Has anyone seen this 1995 movie starring Chris Cooper? It is set in Kentucky during the CW.

Any opinions?

YMOS
tommy

(Message edited by aphillbilly on November 06, 2003)

unionblue · #2 11-07-2003, 12:50 AM

Tommy,

Yup. A very good movie, about a very sad time and set of circumstances. A good story with a sad setting and well told.

Unionblue

#3 11-07-2003, 12:56 AM

Thanks a million Neil...but...Dang.....I was hoping it stunk. Now I got something else I got to buy lol.

YMOS
tommy

(Message edited by aphillbilly on November 07, 2003)

hoosier · #4 11-07-2003, 01:10 PM

Never heard of the movie before, but this thread makes me curious.

Which army was referred to as "Pharaoh's" and why?

thea_447 · #5 11-07-2003, 03:49 PM

Perhaps this will help.
http://www.kernel.uky.edu/1995/fall/1101/d3.html

YMOS,

johan_steele · #6 11-07-2003, 04:10 PM

Interesting, I'd like to see it. A note that is all too often forgotten today is that Kentucky was largely pro Union...

Another reference to Pharoah's Army is a song the Irish Brigade sang on their way to Fredricksburg. A stirring song w/ biblical conotations that was well thought of in Ireland. I'm not certain of the title but I've heard it a time or to. It is a stirring song and imagining that song led by the NCO's and the refrains sung by the soldiers (in Brigade strength)... sends chills up my spine to think of it.