The Killer Angels
...book takes place over four days; Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. For each section of the book, the battle scenes change. The first one is when the armies establish the position on Monday. At this time, the Union has a good hold over the town. By the end of the next section, Wednesday, the Confederacy is in most control and forced the Union troops to go back to the Hills of Gettysburg. But by the end of the Thursday section, the Union is the best after it resisted Lee's attack.
Since the book mostly goes back and fourth, it really makes you wonder what's going to happen in the final section. Obviously, you already know that the Union will resist Pickett's charge. But how the author does the back and forth technique, it makes it seem the Union is about to be victorious, the Confederacy, then the Union again. It kind of makes it suspenseful. In the final section, Friday, you find out about the Union victory.
The Spy
On Monday, June 29, 1863, a spy named Harrison, hired by Longstreet, finds a nearby union troop and goes back the Confederate camp to report it. His information is that the Union army is trying to get the Confederate forces into Pennsylvania. Harrison goes to the Confederate camp to give Longstreet the report. When he receives it, he isn't sure if the spy is telling the truth of not. At that time he didn't have his Calvary, so he didn't have much a choice. He decides that he must trust the spy. Harrison takes them to Lee. Now that Lee knows his options, he orders his army to march to Gettysburg and hopes to destroy the Union forces.
Chamberlain
While Chamberlain is marching with his men to Gettysburg to help the Union position, he gets sick with a sunstroke. Tom, his younger brother, and Kilrain, and fatherly figure to him, try to help him get well.
Soon after, Chamberlain is in a situation: the army left his 120 men from Maine with...
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