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The Killer Angels By Michael Shaara The Killer Angels is a novel about the Civil War. More accurately it is about the Gettysburg Campaign that turned the tide of war in the favor of the Union. This book is not only about the tactical aspects of the battle but it also gives a personal account of the many key players. Great men like General Robert E. Lee, General Longstreet, General Pickett, General Buford, and Col. …

…same reasons the men from the south were. To protect their families and their way of life, as well as the fact that they thought slavery was not right. I think that Col. Joshua Chamberlain, a professor at Bowdin College before he took a sabbatical to study in France but instead joined the Union Army, put it best when he said that he was fighting because, "it was the right thing to do." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**