The story may be fictionalized, but the history part isn't; like it or not, it's part of US history during this time period when race is such a hot topic. Race & religion are hot topics nowadays.
The American Civil War was the one most deadliest wars in American history excluding the World Wars, of course, but those weren't fought on American soil. It was terribly sad that the soldiers never were able to get married, have kids, for they were just young lads. Sent them out as young boys, came back as a honorable (dead) young men, RIP.
According to the movie, nearly all of the Confederates died in the war. The women had nothing to eat b/c the Yankees destroyed most of everything in the rural territories, where the Southern women had to rebuild their land w/o slaves, who were freed after the war and for the war to fight for their rights to become free slaves.
As for Atlanta, which was fire-bombed by Sherman's army, the former Confederate land was rebuild w/ newer, finer and even finer buildings than before, for the materials came straight out of the North.
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