February, 2001

February 11, 2001

To all of you who have included us in your thought and prayers. To those of
you who have sent donations to the scholarship fund in my sons Lee's name my deepest gratitude.
Steve Thompson

February 1, 2001

NEW: "Gods and Generals" is going into production Summer-Fall 2001.

What decisions brought the generals of the Civil War to the battlefield at Gettysburg? What choices did they make, both military and personal, what thoughts ran through their minds and what emotions stirred their hearts as they watched their nation divide into North and South, Union and Confederate?

Gods and Generals is the prequel to The Killer Angels, the novel upon which the film Gettysburg was based. Written by Jeff Shaara (son of Michael Shaara, author of The Killer Angels), Gods and Generals will soon be a major motion picture written and directed by Ron Maxwell. The movie will be filmed in and around Sharpsburg, Maryland, the site of the Antietam Battlefield, and on actual historic locations in Virginia and West Virginia. Many of the actors from the movie Gettysburg will reprise their roles in the new film, which also features the new characters Stonewall Jackson, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, Myra Hancock, Mary Custis Lee, and Fanny Chamberlain.