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Every soldier in an army seems to have their own story of why they choose to fight in a war, yet when one looks at a war they see one army against another, the individual no longer matters. There is no such thing as an individual in battle or in war. When war is studied there are the armies that fought and the leaders that led those armies. The leaders are the ones that are credited for a win and reprimanded for a loss. The Killer Angels, a historical fiction by Michael Shaara that recounts the events of the Battle of Gettysburg by giving a personal account of the key figures in the war, and Glory, a movie directed by Edward Zwick about the union's fifty fourth all black regiment and their growth throughout the civil war, both show how the individual is no longer important during wartime, but how the leaders in the war, Robert E. Lee, Joshua Chamberlain, Robert Gould Shaw, must work to bring honor and victory for their soldiers and prove themselves to be worthy of being called......

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