Freedom's Path

This was Thomas Jefferson Byrd's last film.

As William and Lewis go into their first battle, neither their commanders nor the rebels' commanders have their men fix bayonets. Consequently, as the two lines charge each other, then mingle, they just go by each other, and never engage each other. In reality, at the start of a battle, each side would have fixed bayonets, and when they charged each other, they would have engaged in hand to hand combat using their bayonets. But not fixing bayonets was/is a safety precaution used by reenactors to ensure that there will be no accidents, a tact obviously employed by the producers of this film.