I'm not saying those things did not happen. But to have one story show that much inhumanity by one group, in the presence of one soldier, in that short of time, is pushing an agenda even though it may not have been the intent of those who wrote it. An anti-war film can be made without showing only one inhumane act after another committed by one side to innocent people. The "Outlaw Josy Wells" was not called an anti-war film by the critics; a film whose story was mostly about the inhumane acts by Union Red Legs- it was called a "revisionist western" because the "bad guys" were what was normally the "good guys" or Union soldiers.

Movies like "Paths of Glory" and "All Quiet on the Western Front" were truly anti-war. Where the injustices of war were shown on the battlefield, happening to the soldiers, and the senseless killings of thousands by the machines of war and politics were well represented. A good anti-war movie that represented the Civil War I think would be "Andersonville", a movie were I rooted for the Union soldiers when they tried to escape; I did not think it was anti-Confederate either. Other movies that have not been made but could be anti-war would be about the Battle of Franklin or Grant's tactics that killed thousands of his own men. Although it has not been mentioned here, but the movie "Gangs of New York" had a anti-war theme to it, showing how the Irish immigrants were being used as cannon fodder by the Union Army during the Civil War.

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David Upton