... strategy will accomplish anything. In the book The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, strategy is shown as the most important element of this battle. The Army of Northern Virginia, under General Robert E. Lee, lost the Battle of Gettysburg for several reasons. The most important was General Lee's refusal to fight a defensive battle and position the Confederate forces between Washington D.C. and the Union Army. Others factors ... include General Lee's lack of intelligence, and the ... General Stuart was joyriding around instead of doing his job. General Longstreet had hired his own scout f...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , but there are those rare ones that make you feel like you are right in the moment. During the past wars I've learned enough background to understand that while all the men continued fighting, they soon forgot what the reason was that they were fighting for. In Michael Shaara's novel, The Killer Angels, it was hard not to get that feeling from Lieutenant General Longstreet. At several ... points in the novel Shaara had Longstreet sitting alone wondering about what was really going on. The start of the battle was slow and steady ... . Many of the men were in the back out of fire. What su...

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... on the novel "The Killer Angels" by J. Michael Shaara, comprises of two video cassettes, being 234 minutes long. It is set from the afternoon/evening of June 30th, 1863, until the day after the Battle of Gettysburg, the 4th of July, 1863, ironically enough, "Independence Day". It is filmed on location at Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania. When the video starts, the credits are played through on the screen. From the very ... General George E. Pickett (played by Stephen Lang); Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Fremantle (played by James Lancaster) of Her Majesty's Cold Stream Guards...

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• Grade Level: High School