The document summarizes the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara about the three-day Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. It describes the main characters, including Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Union Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, and outlines the events of the battle from June 30 to July 3, 1863. On the last day, the failed Pickett's Charge by Confederate General George Pickett effectively ended the battle, and Lee's army was forced to retreat, dealing a major blow to the Confederacy.

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
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