I very much appreciate the opportunity to read the script for "Gods and Generals." Quite frankly, I have never been more enthusiastic about a movie project. As a lifelong student of Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson, as well as one who spent seven years producing the most recent biography of the man, I have the strongest desire to see him depicted on film in the most accurate light. Anything less would be insulting to Jackson's memory and more fodder for the long-standing criticism that movie makers have neither the desire nor the ability to be truthful in historical productions. The Turner movie of "Gods and Generals" would go farther than any other modern film in dispelling those charges. Indeed, I see an even more positive contribution. The present script would reveal for the first time the real essence of one of history's most famous individuals. Most important of all, you have the opportunity to present a film that will inspire as well as inform.

James I. Robertson, Jr.

Alumni Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Stuidies at Virginia Tech and award winning author of Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend