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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.

[Moby Grape]

Was it really trying to say the war was about "less" than slavery? Or perhaps, trying to show how people could be so devoted to causes on both sides?

[carton253]

No... Gods and Generals was not a movie based on the causes of the Civil War. It was not a history lesson. It was about the war as seen through the eyes of Jackson and Chamberlain mostly.

For Jackson, the war was about repulsing the invaders. For Chamberlain, the war was about freeing the slaves.

If you try to make the movie a cause and effect and a political movie... then you make the movie carry a weight it was not meant to bear.

Even Shaara's novel wasn't about the cause and effects of the Civil War, but how the war effected the soldiers that fought it.