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Message: [QUOTE="ZooCougar, post: 5060239, member: 296"] The Killer Angels isn’t that historically accurate. Although it was my gateway drug to being interested in the Civil War. The movie Gettysburg which is awesome, was based on it and just as “accurate”, The gyy who wrote the Antietam book mentioned wrote companion for The Killer Angels that sets the record straight and talks about what is accurate. He used to be the Head Ranger at Gettysburg. One thing that is interesting is over the years how the 20th Maine’s role kept growing and growing. Chamberlain lived for a long time after the war, as did Longstreet. Chamberlain wrote quite a bit and over the years in his writing he gradually became like the main character. Shaara was influenced by that and that transferred to the book. [/QUOTE]