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The Killer Angels
- 1. Historic Historic War Presentation
- 3. The pulitzer prize-winning civil war novel more than two and a half million copies in print in 1975 written by Michael Shaara.
- 4. “The best and most realistic historical novel about war I have ever read.” -General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
- 5. The Killer Angels is all about the 3-day battle in Gettysburg of American Civil War.
- 6. In the story, the author, Michael Shaara gives us an idea of what the battle would like be.
- 7. And how the war will affect the people after it.
- 8. 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.
- 9. 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.
- 10. 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.
- 11. 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.
- 12. 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.
- 13. On June 30, 1863, the troops move into a battle around the town of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
- 14. The troops are known to be Confederacy under General Robert Edward Lee.
- 15. And Union under Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain with seventy thousand men.
- 16. On the first 3 days of July, the battle was fought. These 3 days have been known as the Battle of Gettysburg.
- 17. The Union forces under Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain managed to hold until they were overpowered and driven back.
- 18. Thousands of Union soldiers were captured before they could reach the Cemetery Hill.
- 19. Confederates conquered the whole town.
- 20. But Pickett’s division is virtually destroyed, No fiels officer is unhurt. Of all the thirteen colonels, seven are dead and six are wounded.
- 21. Pickett, a major general of Confederacy, asked the Confederates a last chance to change the outcome of the battle.
- 22. But it turned out to be a total failure and Pickett lost almost all of his division.
- 23. He returned to Lee and Lee told Pickett to prepare against a possible Union counterattack.
- 24. But Pickett explained to Lee that he lost almost all of his division.
- 25. With that failure, the battle was over - the Union had been saved.
- 26. On the last day, 4th of July, Lee’s army (Confederacy) had to retreat.
- 27. Innovate… …or die!
- 28. Sarah Loreen P. Paloma BSED 1
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