[Gunslingr3]

"'Gods and Generals' is part of a growing movement that seeks to rewrite the history of the American South, downplaying slavery and the economic system that it sustained. In museums, schools and city council chambers, white neo-Confederates are hard at work in an effort to have popular memory trump historical accuracy," the city employee wrote.

An accounting of why and for what some people chose to fight the consolidated government of Washington D.C. is rewriting history?

The movie does a fine job of explaining why many fought, and even how the war turned to the question of slavery. The people trying to act like the war wasn't about more than just slavery are guilty of rewriting history, but the victor has that perogative...

[Sunshine Sister]

I'd be curious to know where the movie reviewers right to free speech went in all of this.

[Lee Heggy]

The last organised effort to restore the Constitution was led by the Confederacy...but of course, that was all about slavery right? Lincoln marked the half-way post on the road to the sewers [in presidents]. Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant took us the rest of the way.

[Age of Reason]

Imagine if because America refused to license gay marriage, the U.N.--as leader of some future One-World Government--were to invade the United States.

What would patriotic Americans then be fighting for: gay rights or nations' rights?

[Redleg Duke]

As a "Damnedyankee" now living in Virginia, I am fed up with the liberals and their slaves in the NAALCP trying to misdirect history with the goal of providing anyone with Negro heritage with a permanent victinhood status and anyone with Caucasian Heritage with permanent guilt.

Slavery was one of many factors in this war. States' Rights and an encroaching Federal Government were, in my opinion, much greater contributors. Now, the liberals are trying to reopen old wounds and further split this country apart. I personally resent their activities as unAmerican and treasonous.

[Wallace T.]

Any movie that does not depict the Confederates as a group of chicken fried Nazis will be viewed negatively by the media elite, as well as liberals and neo-conservatives.

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The people trying to act like the war wasn't about more than just slavery are guilty of rewriting history, but the victor has that perogative...

I don't know -- sometimes it looks like Gods and Generals was guilty of saying that the war was about less than slavery.