Michael Shaara: General

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“There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.”

Source: The Killer Angels

“It's no good trying to get yourself killed, General. The Lord will come for you in His own time.”

Captain Goree, Part IV, CH 5: Longsteet, p.355
The Killer Angels (1974)

“"General Meade has his son as adjutant." "That's different. Generals can do anything. Nothing quite so much like God on earth as a general on a battlefield."”

Michael Shaara book The Killer Angels

Thomas Chamberlain and Joshua Chamberlain, Part I, CH 2: Chamberlain, p. 29
The Killer Angels (1974)

“Oh, by the way, there's a story going around, do you know? They say that General Lee was asleep, and the army was marching by, and fifteen thousand men went by on tiptoe so as not to wake him.”

Michael Shaara book The Killer Angels

Lt. Col Arthur Fremantle, Part II, CH 5: Longstreet, p. 130
The Killer Angels (1974)

“One thing I'm very glad to see. Your General Lee is a moralist, as are all true gentlemen, of course, but he respects minor vice, harmless vice, when he finds it in others. Now that's the mark of a true gentlemen. That is what distinguishes the man so to me, aside from his military prowess, of course. The true gentlemen has no vices, but he allows you your own.”

Michael Shaara book The Killer Angels

Lt. Col Arthur Freemantle, Part II, CH 5: Longstreet, p. 130
The Killer Angels (1974)

“General Meade has his son as adjutant.”

Michael Shaara book The Killer Angels

<br/k> "That's different. Generals can do anything. Nothing quite so much like God on earth as a general on a battlefield."
Thomas Chamberlain and Joshua Chamberlain, Part I, CH 2: Chamberlain, p. 29
The Killer Angels (1974)