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This is a MUST MUST MUST see movie. I have great respect for the director, as he is trying to avoid just blanketly criticizing the south or presenting the north as saints.

In fact, there is a scene where Stonewall Jackson breaks down in front of a little girl when she asks him if her daddy will be coming home; he responds all the daddies will be going home (some to heaven is a definite undertone here knowing Jackson).

It is clear that this director (he directed Gettysburg also) is adament on being fair. I hope Freepers will flock to the theaters in droves.

The history department of my college is going to take a field trip to watch the movie (an evening sometime), so I can't wait.

This is a MUST SEE film.

Slavery played a great role in the war, but so did other factors such as high taxes on the south compared to the north (plus earlier, the nullification crisis also helped influence the war later). I am glad to see a film not be afraid to go beyond elementary school history.....which unfortunately, some anti-south Freepers believe.

Slavery played a great role in the war, but so did other factors such as high taxes on the south compared to the north...

There were no federal taxes in 1860. None.

Walt