Gods And Generals Book Lost Cause

Gods And Generals Book Lost Cause. It is based upon the bestselling book of the same name, by jeff shaara. God and general longstreet traces the persistence and the transformation of the lost cause from the first generation of former confederates to more recent times, when the lost cause has continued to endure in the commitment of southerners to their regional culture.

The best thing about this book is that it allows the readers to get to know the soldiers, how each of the generals struggled with fear and hoped for a better life after the war knowing well that the battle might be their last. God and general longstreet traces the persistence and the transformation of the lost cause from the first generation of former confederates to more recent times, when the lost cause has continued to endure in the commitment of southerners to their regional culture. It is exciting and boring,.

Slavery, not states right, was both the proximate and deep cause of the war.

Gods and generals is a character study of the senior confederate commanders in the eastern theatre, during the civil war. God and general longstreet traces the persistence and the transformation of the lost cause from the first generation of former confederates to more recent times, when the lost cause has continued to endure in the commitment of southerners to their regional culture. Not content to just tell us that union soldiers did bad things, the filmmakers then decide to tell us that slaves were still loyal. It elevated the confederate generals, lee and jackson, to gods rather than generals.