Matt Dally P3 Summary Gone with the wind starts with the main character attending a party.

The girls all have to go take a nap, but once they are all asleep Scarlett sneaks out and listens in on the conversation the men are having about the upcoming war. Everyone is sure the war will be short and glorious. After all, "southern gentlemen are worth any ten Yankees. Everyone knows that." Everyone, that is, except Rhett Butler -- he thinks the war will be hard fought. After Rhett and all the men get into a confrontation, he leaves. The war started! All the men are going to enlist. At Christmas time (1863), the soldiers get three days leave. Scarlett and Melanie volunteer at the hospital for the wounded from the war. Scarlett, nursing at the hospital, helps to show how gruesome the injuries were and how desperate the conditions were. In the summer of 1864, Sherman starts to attack Atlanta and everyone is fleeing the city. Scarlett sends Prissy to get Rhett and ask him to bring his horse and carriage. Rhett, Scarlett, Melanie, Prissy, and Beau start on their journey to Tara. They have to cross through the fires set by the retreating Confederates in downtown Atlanta. As Part 2 opens, Scarlett is shown picking cotton in the fields at Tara. Later, when she goes inside, a Yankee straggler comes in and tries to steal whats left of their money, but Scarlett kills him and takes all of his looted money. The war is finally over! (1865) But there is trouble, the Yankee carpetbaggers and southern scalawags have raised the taxes on Tara. Now they are $300 -- an unreachable amount of money. (This is the last of the historically relevant activities that happened in the movie).

Historical Relevance Many southerners were in fact extremely arrogant. They thought that the northern people were just scum that they would wipe off their boots. This arrogance helped the already heavily favored north because the Southerners would come into a battle thinking there would be no resistance. They would not come completely prepared and they would all get slaughtered. There were many horrific injuries that occurred during the war. Men could have legs knocked off by cannon balls, holes blasted into their arms by led balls fired from a gun, or even have gashes in their sides from swords. Many people thought that war was a glorified activity and they all wanted to join because they did not realize the true horrors of war. They were blinded by their respective governments about what war was truly about. Atlanta was really invaded by the union in many different battles including the Battle of Peachtree Creek, the Battle of Atlanta, and the Battle of Ezra Church. On September 1, 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuated Atlanta. Atlanta was surrendered by Maj. Gen. Henry W. Slocum to a committee of Mayor James Calhoun and Union-leaning citizens William Markham, Jonathan Norcross, and Edward Rawson. Sherman set up a headquarters in the city and ordered the entire city to be evacuated. He then ordered the entire city (except for the churches and hospitals) to be burned to the ground. They then left and continued their way south. Carpetbaggers was a derogatory term given to northern tax collector that came to the south to collect the taxes. This name was given to the tax collectors by the southerners because of the way they traveled. They had all their things in carpetbags. They received a bad name because many southerners believed that they were just there to pillage the souths ruined homes and buildings.