jgoodguy

Yep, but my assumption is that it was an only source. I should have said only written source. The ruins of Atlanta would be known and some monuments to the civil war would have survived. The Lincoln Monument may have survived. Even some civil war graves and battle sites would have been excavated. There are even fragments of the Twelve Oaks House(seen in the opening scenes of the move GWTW) in Atlanta that might survive to that far in the future day.

In any case, I wanted to make 2 points: 1. Just because it is fiction, that does not mean it does not have historical information(GWTW was intended as a historical accurate novel); 2. Not all information found in a novel is historical and historical analysis can be led astray.

Even artifacts can led to wrong conclusions. The fragments of Twelve Oaks in Atlanta are fiction though they are both not written and are tangible.

The Gospels contained historical information to make them more credible. I think the historical information extends to a Historical Jesus, but it may not. I'd not bet the house on it.

Doug Shaver

That works.

And I appreciate the way you clarified your point. I have no quarrel with that analysis.