In Fiction
The Confederate Home Guard plays a major role in the novel Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier and the film of the same name written and directed by Anthony Minghella. As both novel and film are presented from the sympathetic point of view of a Confederate deserter, the Home Guards hunting him are the villains. In Gone with the Wind, the Home Guard fights General Sherman's army when it invades Atlanta. The soldiers fight bravely but lose the battle and many are killed.
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