Most of Cold Mountain was based on fact. However they had Yankees doing things Rebs did and Rebs doing things Yanks did. Regular Regiments doing things Homeguard did and vise-a-versa. Some take exception to the young, acrobatic and physical active young man being in the Homeguard. Such was there. It's one of my all time favorite Civil War movies because it takes place in Western NC where all my mother's family are from. And yes internecine warfare is nothing new in the the Southeast, plenty in the Revolutionary War right up the feuds of the Hatfields and McCoys and the like.
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