The Killer Angels | Characters

To emphasize the gulf between the cultures who sent their armies to Gettysburg, Shaara concentrated on the two highest-ranking commanders of the Army of Northern Virginia, Lee and Longstreet, while he chose relatively little-known but intensely capable figures to speak for the North: Colonel Lawrence Chamberlain, commanding the Twentieth Maine Regiment, and General John Buford of the United States Cavalry. Each man won his place in this novel through tragic irony; dead black eyes in a regal ghostly face dominate Shaara's portrait of Lee, Virginia's "man of honor," who sees his enemy and...

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