Robert E Lee, never did the cruel things Sherman and Grant did, and it continued on with Native Americans during Grant' s presidency. REL said. War is so terrible, and if it were not so, we would grow to love it. A good Christian man as opposed to Sherman and the quote from this movie. You couldn't even when this movie was made, make a true Civil War movie. What about the riot of NY when Lincoln conscripted 75k men who didn't want to fight? Lincoln is portrayed as God and a poor man. He was very wealthy, told the North they could keep their slaves. Hey how about a movie about the first slave owner in America, whose was black. We still have slavery in the "giving" form. No one is owed anything. Read the Bible.