re: "Virginians! Virginians! With me! Who will come with me?!"

Richard Jordan, a very fine actor, played Armistead. A Harvard-educated Bostonian, Jordan was actually the grandson of famed jurist Learned Hand - the most quoted/referenced lower court judge in U.S. history.

Jordan was a distant cousin of 2nd Maine soldier William S. Jordan (one of the mutineers with a change of heart). Williams S. Jordan was mortally wounded at Little Round Top on July 3rd, 1863.

Richard Jordan died a few weeks before the premiere of Gettysburg.