This is an outstanding book about the Battle of Gettysburg, even though it is fictional. The Killer Angels The Battle of Gettysburg brought the fighting North and South together to the small town of Gettysburg and on the edge of splitting the Union. Gettysburg could closely be compared to Judgement Day and this book gives a day-to-day account of the battle that made America’s future. The historical account of the Battle of Gettysburg in …showed first 75 words of 461 total…

…showed last 75 words of 461 total…for a cause, land, or slavery. “So it was no cause and no country he fought for, no ideal and no justice. He fought for his people, for the children, and the kin, and not even the land, because the land was worth the war, but the people were,” says General Lee (Shaara 263). The fortunate men who survived the war, moved on to other battles. However, the battle scars, both physical and psychological, remained eternally.