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    The Killer Angels Summer Reading/Writing Assignment Essay The Battle of Gettysburg is considered one of the bloodiest battles during the Civil War, and an important mark in American history. The Killer Angels presents key moments of the battle, and the people who fought each for their own reasons. There are men who primarily fought for homeland, battled for an ideal, or combated for glory. There are three different men highlighted in the book that fought for these reasons. General Robert E. Lee,

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    The Killer, Who? of the Wounded Angels Why so many deaths in one battle that happened for only 4 years? Before the Civil War, there was the Revolution in 1776-1783 that created the United States. Then the Civil War in 1861-1865 determined what kind of nation it would be. The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states, and they wanted to prohibit slavery in the territories that haven’t became states yet. President Abraham Lincoln won the election in 1860

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    the Gettysburg was the largest battle known in the Civil War. Therefore, many troops were wounded or killed. In the book Killer Angels by Michael Shaara is stating how intense the Battle of Gettysburg was and how many troops are wounded or killed. Yet medicine wasn't too advanced at the time so it was on what the aides can do to help to their best ability. In the book Killer Angels the three persons, I found who were wounded or killed were the following Reynolds, Chamberlain, Kilrain. First

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    The Killer Angels Essay “There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.” Stated by Abraham Lincoln, this quote embodies the essence of war, its tragic character and unfortunate occasional necessity. Accordingly, the outcome of war and its battles is often determined by the attitudes of the leaders of the opposing sides, including their causes for the willingness to fight and to be fought. Such was the case with the Battle of Gettysburg

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    The Killer Angels Write Up The Killer Angels was published in 1974 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. The author, Michael Shaara, was teaching at Florida State University and writing many science fiction and other subjects of stories at the same time. After publishing many science fiction stories and boxing subject novel, The Broken Place, he chose a different subject to work on, which was history about Gettysburg. He did research on first-person memories, diaries and letters, and

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    The Killer Angels Book Report The Killer Angels, is a novel written by Michael Shaara which originally published in 1974. The novel is base on the battle of Gettysburg which is the bloodiest battle in the United States. The author chronologically narrates the battle, instead of standing a viewpoint that is knowing everything in the battle. The description of the battle makes reader to be personally on the scene.The book describes the battle from both sides of the war, the Union and Confederacy.

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    Loyalty in The Killer Angels Loyalty is "faithful adherence to a sovereign, government, leader or cause" according to Dictionary.com . Sometimes loyalty is good and sometimes loyalty is bad. For example good loyalty is when People celebrate their country's independence. However bad loyalty is when Nazi Germany Kill the Jewish people and Normal people let it happen. In the book The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, The loyalty between Longstreet and Lee is a bad thing that make Lee and the South lose

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    correct it as General Chamberlain did in the passage, “Chamberlain felt an oddness, a crawly hesitation, not wanting to touch him…he felt it again: a flutter of unmistakable revulsion…He had not even known this feeling was there.” (p. 169 The Killer Angels) Conversely, the Confederate generals took the position of justifying bad acts as God’s will. History would place them on the wrong side, both morally and physically. When Kilrain says there is no divine spark, he is correct. The arrogance

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    In the book Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, he analyzes the roles of two important men in Civil War history. One is Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Confederate army, and the other is James Longstreet, a Confederate general. Both men play key parts in the battle of Gettysburg and their choices help direct the course of the whole war, both in their favor and against. While they are fighting on the same side, there are differences that distinguish them and cause conflict between them, and these

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    The book The killer Angels by Michael Shaara depicts an accurate picture of what it's like to fight in the Civil War. Shaara not only describes the horrifying experience the characters had to endure during the Battle of Gettysburg, but also the motives behind the character's acts and decisions. The majority of the book is spent describing Joshua Chamberlain, James Longstreet, and Robert E. Lee. Longstreet and Lee fought on the Confederate side and Chamberlain fought for the Union. One of the conflicts

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