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A 5 page paper discussing how author Michael Shaara used these two Confederate generals in his account of the battle of Gettysburg. General Lee’s role in “The Killer Angels” is to exemplify the idealism with which the South began the Civil War. General Longstreet, on the other hand, represents the pragmatism introduced by the reality of the South’s poor position in terms of materiel, supplies and practicality. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSkillerAngels.rtf
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No Yankee dog had the right to tell the South how it would live. This was America, built on freedom and the right for free men to conduct
their affairs as they pleased. Freedom was relative, of course, reserved only for the white people of the nation. It still was in keeping with the foundations of
the country, though, when the notion of individual freedom arrived in the form of the Puritans who sought religious freedom for themselves using whatever means they would come to see
as being necessary. They sought to free themselves from the oppression of the established religion of Britain. Nearly 200 years later, their descendents would fight to free themselves
from the oppression of the British throne. Now, it was time for the South to follow those examples to free itself from the oppression emanating from Washington.
Idealism was the Souths greatest asset. The industrialized North possessed all of the machinery and factories of the emerging industrial revolution; it possessed all
of the coal that fueled it. The North possessed the armed forces and the ships of the United States government. That was of no consequence, however. The
South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Robert E. Lee
General Lee, one of the top graduates of West Point in the North, shared in the Souths idealism and was only slightly more practical in acknowledging
the shortcomings with which it flung itself into secession from the Union. The general feeling in the South was that if war was to be inevitable, that if Washington
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