Click2Flicks - Gods and Generals - The Story Behind The Movie - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>GODS AND GENERALS:</p> <p>THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="104%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="gods_generals_ch2.htm">2. BULL RUN</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="gods_generals_ch3.htm">3. THOMAS JONATHON ("STONEWALL") JACKSON</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="gods_generals_ch4.htm">4. MISTAKES AT FREDERICKSBURG</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="gods_generals_ch5.htm">5. FREDERICKSBURG: DEATH AND MERCY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="gods_generals_ch6.htm"><b>6. TENDER-HEARTED WARRIOR</b></a></font> </b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="gods_generals_ch7.htm"><b>7. WINNING STRATEGY</a></b></font> </b> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=102% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="gods_generals_ch8.htm">8. VICTORY AT CHANCELLORSVILLE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="gods_generals_ch9.htm">9. THE AGONY OF DEFEAT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="gods_generals_ch10.htm">10. JACKSON IS SHOT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="gods_generals_ch11.htm">11. THE DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="gods_generals_ch12.htm">12. SANDIE PENDELTON</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="gods_generals_ch13.htm">13. OTHER KEY FIGURES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="gods_generals_ch14.htm">14. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><font size="3"><u><b><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></b></u></font></p></div> <div align="center"><font face="times new roman,arial,helvetica" size=3 color=000000><b><i>It must have been from such a scene<br> that men in ancient times<br> rose to the dignity of gods.<br><br></b></i></b> Confederate staff officer<br> Observing the troops’ adulation of Robert E. Lee<br> Battle of Chancellorsville<br> May, 1863</font><br><br> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p align="justify"><font face="arial,helvetica" size=3 color="000000">On April 14, 1861, men of the 18th South Carolina regiment replaced the United States flag that flew at <a href="http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/civil_war/images/civil_war_114.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Ft. Sumter</b></a> with a <a href="http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/flags/fosu1861.htm" target="_blank"><b>Palmetto flag</b></a>.  An unwanted <a href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0867130849.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" target="_blank"><b>war</b></a> between the states, feared as a <a href="http://www.civilwarhome.com/gordoncauses.htm" target="_blank"><b>potential</b></a>, had become <a href="http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/civil_war/images/civil_war_087.jpg" target="_blank"><b>reality</b></a>.</p> <p>The next day, Abraham <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/7/14/07-1348a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Lincoln</b></a> (<a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vctt8photo.jpg" target="_blank"><b>inaugurated</b></a> as America’s 16th president the prior month), called on the Union to send <a href="http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/library/or/122/0067.cfm" target="_blank"><b>75,000</b></a> “militia of the several States of the Union” who could fight in the coming land battles. The number of men required <a href="http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/library/or/122/0069.cfm" target="_blank"><b>per state</b></a> was determined by quota.</p> <p>Governors of states like Kentucky (the place of Lincoln’s birth) and Tennessee refused. <a href="http://www.kdla.state.ky.us/arch/Govphoto/Magoffin.htm" target="_blank"><b>Beriah Magoffin</b></a>, of Kentucky, sent the War Department a pointed <a href="http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/library/or/122/0070.cfm" target="_blank"><b>reply</b></a>:</p> <blockquote><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Your dispatch</i></b> [ordering Kentucky to send 3,123 men] <b><i>is received. In answer I say emphatically Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States.</i></b></font></blockquote> <p align="justify"><font face="arial, helvetica">Tennessee was even more blunt in rejecting the President’s order. <a href="http://www.ishamgharris.org/htdocs/ishamgharris" target="_blank"><b>Isham Harris</b></a> (scroll to the bottom of this <a href="http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/library/or/122/0081.cfm" target="_blank"><b>page</b></a> of the <a href="http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/library/or/list3.cfm" target="_blank"><b>official record</b></a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Tennessee will not furnish a single man for purpose of coercion, but 50,000, if necessary, for the defense of our rights and those of our Southern brethren.</i></b></font></blockquote> <p align="justify"><font face="arial, helvetica">Shortly after Harris replied, Tennessee joined the Confederate States of America (CSA).</p> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="gods_generals_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br></font> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>