Gods and Generals

The book Gods and Generals is a book about the civil war. What makes this book different from other civil war books out there is that this book concerns itself more with following individual people. Most civil war books are purely informational. Gods and Generals focuses on the individual people that the war affected dramatically.
Plot Summary
In the beginning of the book, the author tells of two amazing things that happened in the middle of the 1940's. First, West Point, a military academy, graduated several classes of outstanding cadets. The second thing that happened was the Mexic…