Also a wise discussion of what happens when you let "them" get into your schools.

This movie has one of the most chillingly impressive bad guys of any movie I have seen.

I'll throw this comment in only because "The War" was referred to not as the Civil War or even the War Between the States, but as "The War of Northern Aggression"....



I particularly thought the Confederate massacre of innocent civilians in Lawrence, Kansas was well portrayed. They descended on the town, shot up a lot of civilians and then fled like rabbits when Union forces pursued....

The movie did well to make both side look like sinners.

P.S. My g-g-great grandfolks came southern Missouri - guerilla center. My wife's town still has cannonball holes in the old courthouse. Stories about the nastiness of Quantrill abound.

That's why the movie is titled "Ride With The Devil", because of Quantrill and the Lawrence, KS raid. But the movie is based on the book titled "Woe To Live On", and follows the book rather closely.

I do admit that I LOVE the movie, even thoughI don't know how to do the review feature (I would give 4 stars all the way across). I love this movie partly due to the Spiderman actor, he's good, and largely due to the scenary of Missouri - how I miss those woods.

P.S.S. My g-g-great grandfather (plus or minus one g) came from Pennsylvania Cavalry and brought his two slaves from PA (ironic, huh?) and fought for the Union in Southern Missouri against the raiders. After the War him and his newly-freed slaves share-cropped in fields next to each other and settled in Shannon County, Missouri (or rather helped settle that county, rather than merely settle in it).

I have sympathies both ways and am often torn on the issue of the Civil War/War Between the States. Sometimes I like to challenge Northern revisionism just like I do Southern revisionism on the topic. Plenty of both abound (here on the PB too).