Civil War

General Jubal Early and General George Pickett: both generals for the Confederacy and both severely affected by the outcome of the war. I choose these two people because I find the plight that the Confederate army found itself in very depressing. As one of the underlying themes, the Confederacy was fighting a war against themselves. Would one of the Confederate soldiers proclaim that they are fighting against the abolition of slavery? That was the exact situation the Confederate army found themselves in. These were noble men, fighting for a cause that they did not totally understand. Were they fighting against slavery or the North and why? Along with the irony of the Confederate army’s situation, I find these two people very interesting in the context of the novel, and see a little bit of myself in both these characters.
General Jubal Early was not a very like person within the army. He has shown his competence by being designated as a general. In fact, he is a very in...