The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara [151]
WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK
Survives the wound at Gettysburg. When the war ends it is found that his Second Corps captured more prisoners, more colors, and suffered more casualties than the entire rest of the Army of the Potomac. An enormously popular man all his life, in 1880 he runs for the Presidency on the Democratic ticket, against Garfield, but the country has had two terms of Grant and is weary of generals in high office, and so he is defeated, retires from public life. The package Lew Armistead sent Almira Hancock was Armistead’s personal Bible.
JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN
In August he is given a brigade. Shortly thereafter he is so badly wounded, shot through both hips, that he is not expected to live. But he returns to become one of the most remarkable soldiers in American history. Wounded six times. Cited for bravery in action four times. Promoted to brigadier general by special order of Ulysses Grant for heroism at Petersburg. Breveted major general for heroism at Five Forks. He is the officer chosen by Grant from all other Northern officers to have the honor of receiving the Southern surrender at Appomattox, where he startles the world by calling his troops to attention to salute the defeated South. He is given first place in the last Grand Review in Washington. For his day at Little Round Top he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
In Maine he is elected Governor by the largest majority in the history of the state and returned to office three times, where he alienates political friends by refusing to agree to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
In 1876, elected President of Bowdoin University, where he attempts to modernize the school, introducing courses in science, de-emphasizing religion, and becomes involved in student demonstrations over the question of ROTC. Receives medal of honor from France for distinguished efforts in international education. When he retires from Bowdoin he has taught every subject in the curriculum except mathematics.
Dies of his wounds, June 1914, at the age of eighty-three.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MICHAEL SHAARA was born in 1928 in Jersey City, New Jersey. After graduating from Rutgers University in 1951, he served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, was an amateur boxer, and a police officer. In 1960 he became a professor of creative writing at Florida State University, where he won a faculty-wide award for excellence in teaching. His writing career included the publication of some seventy short stories, beginning in the early 1950s in the heyday of science-fiction publications such as Astounding and Galaxy. Subsequent stories were published through the early 1970s in The Saturday Evening Post, Playboy, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and others. His first novel, The Broken Place, was published in 1968. Other novels include The Herald and For Love of the Game (published after his death).
Michael Shaara died in 1988 at the age of fifty-nine.
Table of Contents
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
List of Maps
To the Reader
Foreword
Monday, June 29, 1863
1. The Spy
2. Chamberlain
3. Buford
4. Longstreet
Wednesday, July 1, 1863: The First Day
1. Lee
2. Buford
3. Lee
4. Chamberlain
5. Longstreet
6. Lee
7. Buford
Thursday, July 2, 1863: The Second Day
1. Fremantle
2. Chamberlain
3. Longstreet
4. Chamberlain
5. Longstreet
6. Lee
Friday, July 3, 1863
1. Chamberlain
2. Longstreet
3. Chamberlain
4. Armistead
5. Longstreet
6. Chamberlain
Afterword
About the Author