Reflections on Michael Shaara’s “The Killer Angels”
Monday, May 8, 2000
Economic History of the U.S. To 1900
Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels is illustrative of the fogginess that often accompanies warfare. The novel covers the very brief period of June 30th, 1863 through July 3rd, 1863. 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.