Cold Mountain is a popular book and film written by Charles Frazier. Cold Mountain is a book about two lovers, Inman and Ada, during the Civil War, who go on separate journeys in hopes of being reunited. The novel is seen as Inman's physical journey from the Civil War to Cold Mountain and Ada's internal journey, but people overlook the huge importance Inman's spiritual journey has in the book. Inman's physical journey is actually made up of unrelated episodes that are linked together by the thread that is Inman's spiritual sense. Inman regains his spiritual sense, gradually, through the entire ending of the novel where he achieves redemption and self-completeness with his death. Inman's journey is one of the spiritual in which he crosses the void from the world of war to the world of spiritual belief that he left at Cold Mountain. Evidence of Inman's spiritual journey is found throughout the book. Inman's spiritual journey is truly a journey to recover his spiritual beliefs that he lost due to the Civil War. For example, he states that General Lee “made it clear that he viewed war as a tool to clarify the dark will of God” (12). Inman tries to distance himself from Lee's belief as it is what troubles him the most. He also believed that "following such logic would soon lead to the winner of every brawl and dogfight being declared God's certified champion" (12). Thus both the horror of the war and the inconsistency of the Christian testimony he received led him to reject what he had been taught without having anything to replace it with. His journey then becomes distinctly spiritual as he tries to find something, if anything, to replace his rejected beliefs. Inman begins his journey as the lover of both... middle of paper ... secret, but he intervened and saved the woman. He also saved Sarah, a widow of a Confederate soldier, from grief by giving her the comfort of having someone to hold on to and by saving her from three Federal raiders. And in the end, in an attempt to save Ada, Ruby and Stobrod, he dies. This is his final act of redemption. He is eventually released into a spiritual realm far from the war. These acts and examples show that Inman is developing back to his previous self from before the war, where life had meaning. Inman is embarking on a spiritual journey rather than just a physical journey home. Inman's journey is a profound part of the novel and is a key ingredient of the plot. All the examples in this article lead to the basic conclusion that Inman is trying to redeem himself and fill the empty beliefs that the war has erased from his body..