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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 co ....

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.... Generals and the conditions of the battle are seen, heard, and felt by the reader. Men were fighting against their own family and friends. These men were fighting for their morals and ideals, they were dying to win an unseen reward. Men were so blinded by their views that they strayed from their family life to help the cause. Even men who were not willing to participate were taken from their women and children, for the sake of fighting someone else's battle. War and the killing of others did not interest General Robert E. Lee and he felt sympathy for the Union. Lee had inconsistent feelings towards war and says, “He was not only to serve in it ....