The Killer Angels Book Analysis

In the history of the United States, there have been many wars like Civil War. Civil War is a war in the United States between the North and the South. In “The Killer Angels” by Michael Shaara is explained of the fogginess that often accompanies warfare. This novel talks about the period of June 30th, 1863 through July 3rd, 1863 when civil war was happening. It is a story of the Battle of Gettysburg, three years into the Civil War. The Killer Angels is also a story that at times questions what the Civil War was about. The Civil War was a war fought over slavery and the North made their own way to South by imposing the South. Slavery was the main reason what got the Civil War started in the South and separation between South and North was stronger.

Chamberlain is the main Union leader in this novel and he provides the different view of the War than the Lee but in the rank of a colonel he is significantly lower than Lee. He was one of the interesting Union soldiers of the Civil War and he was of popular Union commander. At first, he was the college professor from the State of Maine, he volunteered to serve as a Union Army of American Civil War. He had an interesting life. He was an excellent soldier by the end of the war. But this gentleman accepted the surrender of the Confederate forces at the town in central Virginia called Appomattox. In this novel the author tries to strike an exact balance between college professor and as a soldier and he was more educated and thoughtful than other soldiers. He likes to evaluate everything he sees in his life, but through poetically and he has more experience with the battle than many other characters in “The Killer Angel”. His brother, Tom is his aides because of that he had difficult position and he realizes that he may be required to make an order Tom into harm’s way, maybe to his death. As a Union soldiers during the Civil War, he was the soldier with the soul of a poet and he provides the best and insightful analysis with the feelings and motivations in this

In the history of slavery in the South was not unique and escort the founding of the United States, but escort with the hope to gradually decline in use. The abolished of slave trade from Africa was happening in early 1800s and North decadent the region of undergo began to have many changes, especially the increase in works for immigrant in the factories. The Southern States depend on a plantation economy based on crops, such as tobacco and cotton by using slave labors in the fields. In Northern States they were changed by giving works to immigrant workers in industrialized society. Well they are apart North and South, in the book by Shaara, she said “dissimilar men fighting for the union,” fighting against the rebel volunteers, “an army of remarkable unity, fighting for disunion.” Shaara talks about Conflict between the North and South in his novel few times, he talks about Fremantle and then the Englishman who is a companion the Longstreet. Shaara said in the book, “The North has those bloody cities and a thousand religions and the only aristocracy is the aristocracy of wealth. The Northerner doesn’t give a damn for tradition, or breeding, or the Old Country. He hates the Old Country…. In the South…by