The Killer Angels Letters: First Letter. Foreward: A. The Confederate officer who I like the most is Robert Edward Lee. I believe that a strong leadership is needed to captain the Confederate Army. General Lee is the commander of the the army‚ so he is certainly a brilliant leader. Also‚ Lee is “a gentleman” (xvi). “He does not drink or smoke or gamble or chase women”; he does not believe in slavery. Most importantly‚ I like Lee’s disposition. He can control himself very well and never loose his
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August 12‚ 2012 Title: The Killer Angels Author: Michael Shaara Historical Event Depicted: This novel illustrates the Battle of Gettysburg‚ often known as the turning point of the great American Civil War. Southern slave-holding states‚ known as the Confederate States of America‚ fight the war with loyal Union states for secession. The Battle of Gettysburg is where Union Major General George Gordon Meade’s Army of the Potomac defeats Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia
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"The Killer Angels" written by Michael Shaara in 1974‚ published by Ballantine Books‚ is a story showing the courage and heroism of people involved in the Battle of Gettysburg that took place in 1863. The novel presents the battle in an objective manner‚ and does not take sides when displaying the position of the two armies on the subject of slavery. It is an outstanding book and is worth reading due to the presence of real characters. In other words‚ the characters have been brought to life and
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minié balls. It’s because medical hygiene didn’t exist until a few hundred thousand soldiers died of infections. Fortunately‚ someone figured it was a bad idea chopping off limbs and cleaning soldiers with dirty medical equipment. In the novel‚ Killer Angels‚ by Michael Shaara‚ we get an insight of what unhygienic conditions soldier’s had to face during the war. A grand total of about 414‚000 soldiers died during the
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By: j kelley When an author writes a book he has a message that he is trying to get across to the reader. This message is called a theme. In The Killer Angels Shaara’s theme was freedom for the slaves. The Northerners truly believed that the slaves deserved to be free‚ and their desire to set slaves free was the cause of the Civil War. Just before the Battle of Gettysburg‚ Colonel Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine gave a speech to a group of mutineers. He told them that the war in which
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Wells‚ Peter. Barbarians to Angel: The Dark Ages Reconsidered. New York‚ NY: W.W. Norton & Company‚ Inc.‚ 2008 Barbarians to Angels written by Peter Wells is an enlightening read that sheds light on to what really went on during “The Dark Ages”. The written word during 400-800 AD came from educated citizens of the Roman Empire and their recount could be judgmental. Many historians are led to believe that Barbarians destroyed Roman and everyone suffered from acts of violence‚ a mass migration‚
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The Killer Angels Michael Shaara In The Killer Angels‚ one of the ideas and themes that Michael Shaara expresses is that no matter how loyal you are to the cause of what you’re fighting for and the war that you are struggling through‚ you always have a much more stronger loyalistic feeling and connection toward the people that you love the most. An example of this is when Chamberlain uses his brother‚ Tom‚ to plug a gap in the brigade line during a particular moment of battle. After subconsciously
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When a researcher studies the causes of most wars‚ the causes for nearly any war are usually innumerable. However‚ there are a select few wars that even in the presence of several different motives‚ one underlying object or ideal seems to always be the root of the problem. One prime example of this idea is the American Civil War wherein almost every individual soldier had a different reason for being on the battlefront. One nation whose people had grown into a melting pot had slowly been torn down
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The book‚ “The Killer Angels”‚ written by‚ Michael Shaara; is about a battle at Gettysburg concerning slavery. Not everyone who fought in this battle fought for or against slavery. Many had their own views of why they chose to fight in this war. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlian‚ thirty-four years of age‚ a college professor now regiment commander of the 20th Regiment of Infantry‚ and a Maine Volunteer. His younger brother Thomas became his aide. Chamberlian believed in the dignity of man. He grew up
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The Civil War was one of the nation’s bloodiest wars in history‚ and there is so much more to it than the average person knows. “Killer Angels” by Michael Shaara does a fantastic job of ‘opening the doors’ into the true struggles of the Civil War. The book begins from a spy’s perspective‚ on his way to Longstreet to inform him of the Union Army’s position. The news caught Longstreet off guard because General Stuart was supposed to be on the lookout for the Union Army. It takes a while for him to
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