Killer Angels review

Many people believe that the Civil War was not based solely on slavery but it was. Without the uprising of John Brown and the election of an abolitionist president who got less than 40% of the national vote, secession would not have occurred. Or at least it would have been seriously delayed. 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 Chamberlin of the 20th Maine gave a speech to a group of mutineers.

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The war in which they were fighting was not for money, property, or power. At Gettysburg, however, the North gained it’s first major victory. It was a war to set other men free. With an uphill advantage, the Federal troops released a continuous bombardment of artillery as the Confederate troops made their way across. Gen Lee not realizing the futility of his actions ordered a second charge the following day across an open field. Instead, it motivates a natural longing for less blood, less conflict and an amicable end. The South on the other hand did not have this advantage and this ultimately lost the War for the South. It never allows the reader to chose a side to route for. In both cases the Federal troops had fortified vantage points, while the Confederate army had no sufficient protection. Had Lee seen this, he would not have ordered the charges.

Shaara takes the reader into the minds and tents of most of the key strategists at Gettysburg, the southern Pennsylvania town where the war turned and the south began its lengthy retreat.

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Approximate Word count = 986
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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