Gods and Generals lost so much money that it has killed any interest in filming purely Civil War movies for quite some time.
And coming to you in 2006 at NPS CW battlefields,courtesy
of Congressman Jesse Jackson,Jr.-displays on slavery as
the sole cause of the war. Quote-"for too many years the CW battlefields have had a Southern slant,I.E.,high water mark of the Confederacy at Gettysburg".
Yeah, it's too bad that G&G turned out as the bloated tribute to the Lost Cause that it did. By trimming out most of the neo-Confederate trappings and focusing upon the close working relationship between Lee and Jackson, it would have been a much better movie. G&G really did bury any future prospect of a real good Civil War film focused upon military and inter-soldier themes, such as "Glory".