GDG- Characters in Killer Angels

[Barry Summers]

We, the South, had all the Characters...but y'all, the North won....Well,
...yes, yes y'all won.

On 14/02/2008, Tom Ryan <pennmardel at mchsi.com> wrote:
>
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> Has anyone noticed that the Afterword in Killer Angels lists twelve
> characters on the Confederate side and only three for the Union.  One of
> those three is not George Meade.
>
> Not to start a second Civil War, but what does that say about the writer
> and
> about George Meade?  What other Union personalties deserve more
> prominence,
> besides Buster Kilrain?
>
> I would say that Col. George Sharpe of the Army of the Potomac's Bureau of
> Military Information should have been included in the story and the list
> of
> heroes, except that no one had any idea who he was when this book was
> written.
>
> Tom Ryan
>
>
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Barry Summers