The Killer Angels

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The following paper looks at a number of moral aspects of the Battle of Gettysburg as portrayed in the Shaara's book. By looking at these aspects of his book and of the battle the writer differentiates in some measure the reasons that the soldiers on the field had for fighting the war and the reasons generally given by historians.

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"Shaara neither attempts to vilify nor to excuse the officers or soldiers of the Confederacy (or the Union) but looks at them instead as individuals, many of whom were astonishingly brave and committed to their causes. Shaara allows us to see that although the war was in some wars about slavery and in some ways about the growing divide between the agrarian culture of the South as opposed to the industrial culture of the North, it was also about two groups of soldiers fighting for the survival of their homeland, their families, their farms, the places where they had played as children."

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