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A young girl witnesses the Battle of Gettysburg up close
Tillie Pierce was 15 years old when Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia clashed with George Gordon Meade's Union Army of the Potomac for three days at the Pennsylvania crossroads town of Gettysburg July 1-3, 1863. The Pierce family home, which still stands, was on Baltimore Street in Gettysburg, but when the battle started Tillie's father James, a butcher, set her out of the town to a farm behind Little Round Top where should would be safer. However, the farm ended up being right behind the Union lines on the second and third days of the battle and the farm was turned into a field hospital. Years later Tillie Pierce (Allman) wrote "Gettysburg: What One Girl Saw," which served as the major inspiration for this 60-minute documentary which uses those memoirs, still photographs, and reenactments to tell her dramatic story.

This "Unknown Civil War" video is made by the same Emmy award-winning team that produces "The Civil War Journal" and is part of a six-volume series devoted to the "Heroes of Gettysburg." Other volumes are devoted to Jennie Wade, the one civilian killed during the battle, and the pivotal parts in the battle played by Lee, John Buford, and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, all of whom, of course, were major characters in the movie "Gettysburg," which clearly inspired these particular documentaries. What makes "Tillie Pierce at Gettysburg" unique is that it is one of the few Civil War documentaries to not only take the perspective of a teenager, but that of a young girl as well.