10/10!!!!
One of my all-time favorite Stooges shorts -- definitely in my top 5, and perhaps even top 3. I love the outdoorsy ones rather than the later claustrophobic studio soundstage-bound ones. I love the Civil War setting -- period pieces were rare for Curly shorts. RESTLESS KNIGHTS, UNCIVIL WARBIRDS (horrible!) and a handful of Westerns (although BACK TO THE WOODS is set in Colonial times, it's sorta-kinda a Western) were the only others I can think of. (Correct me if I am wrong -- I'd have to peruse a list of all the shorts to be sure.) There were many period pieces with Shemp -- Westerns, Medieval times, pre-historic times, etc.).
I like the fact that in only their 8th Columbia short, it seems like it is a conscious change of pace, being sandwiched in between POP GOES THE EASEL and PARDON MY SCOTCH, which both seem to follow the more traditional Stooge formula. Clocking in at 19 and a half minutes, this was much longer than the average Stooges short. That's nearly 4 minutes longer than many of their shorts. I'll take 4 extra minutes of Moe, Larry, and Curly any day. It's interesting that Curly is billed on the film's poster as Jerry Howard rather than Curly. (And on-screen as Curley, which we know was done for awhile.)