The Battle of Gettysburg brought the dueling North and South together to
             the small town of Gettysburg and on the threshold of splitting the Union.
             Gettysburg was as close as the United States got to Armageddon and The Killer
             Angels gives the full day-to-day account of the battle that shaped America's
             future. Michael Shaara tells the story of the Battle of Gettysburg through the eyes
             of the generals and men involved in the action of the battle. The historical account
             of the Battle of Gettysburg gives the reader a chance to experience the battle
             personally and not the history book manner taught in schools. A historical novel
             gives the facts straightforward and provides no commentary by the people
             involved in history. The historical account of the Battle of Gettysburg, as seen in
             Killer Angels, provides the facts of the battle as seen through the eyes of Generals
             Robert E. Lee, Joshua Chamberlain, James Longstreet, and John Buford. The
             feelings and inner-thoughts of each General and the conditions of the battle are
             seen, heard, and felt by the reader in the historical account. Shaara takes historical
             license with letters, the words of the men, and documents written during the
             three hellish days of the battle. Shaara avoids historical opinion and provides his
             own opinion towards the Civil War and the people. The historical account of the
             Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg specifically, in Killer Angels conveys the
             attitude to toward war, attitude towards the Civil War, and cause for fighting the
             war of General Robert E. Lee, Joshua Chamberlain, James Longstreet, and John
             General Robert E. Lee gained stoic and legendary status as the heart and
             soul of the South in the Civil War, but many did not know his reasons and
             feelings for fighting the war. War and the slaughter of others did not interest Lee
             and he felt compassion for the Union. Lee had contradictory feelings towards war
             and s...