The Killer Angels

Historic Historic War Presentation

The pulitzer prize-winning civil war novel more than two and a half million copies in print in 1975 written

by Michael Shaara.

“The best and most realistic historical novel about war I have ever read.”

-General H.Norman Schwarzkopf

The Killer Angelsis all aboutthe 3-day battlein Gettysburgof AmericanCivil War.

In the story, the author, Michael Shaara gives us an idea of what the battle would like be.

And howthe warwill affectthe peopleafter it.

This work by Shaara is very wondrous.

He is able to capture well how things were during the Civil War and he let us imagine realistically.

And because the country is resting on the war, it adds the novel a great impact to the reader’s mind.

Shaara was able to bring to the reader a little of the war.

CHARACTERS:

1. General Robert Edward Lee – Confederacy. At the age of fifty-seven, Lee has become one of the most famous-and most revered-men in the South. He has led his army through a strings of victories.

CHARACTERS:

2. Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain – Union. Thirty-four years old, Chamberlain has left home in Maine and a comfortable professorship at Bowdoin College to come to war.

CHARACTERS:

3. General George Pickett – Confederacy. Has nonetheless risen to the rank of major general, and he leads an entire division. His division has not seen action in the battle yet, and he longs for a chance to prove himself and his men.

On June 30, 1863,the troops moveinto a battlearound the townof Gettysburgin Pennsylvania.

The troops are known to be Confederacy under General Robert Edward Lee.

And Union under Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain with seventy thousand men.

These 3 days have been known as the Battle of Gettysburg.

On the first 3 days of July, the battle was fought.

The Union forces under Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain managed to hold until they were overpowered and driven back.

Thousands of Union soldiers were captured before they could reach the Cemetery Hill.

Confederates conquered the whole town.

But Pickett’s division is virtually destroyed, No fiels officer is unhurt. Of all the thirteen colonels, seven are dead and six are wounded.

Pickett, a major general of Confederacy, askedthe Confederatesa last chanceto changethe outcomeof the battle.

But it turned out to be a total failure and Pickett lost almost all of his division.

He returned to Lee and Lee told Pickett to prepare against a possible Union counterattack.

But Pickett explained to Lee that he lost almost all of his division.

With that failure, the battle was over - the Union had been saved.

On the last day, 4th of July, Lee’s army (Confederacy) had to retreat.

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