"The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara Done

You know it's a good book when after 350 pages you don't want it to end. But it did.

I loved what the afterword says about Chamberlain, "He is 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." What amazing class. I would love to know to what extent this gesture worked toward the healing of this nation following that incredibly bitter and bloddy conflict. I also wish that those who created the Treaty of Versailles had followed Chamberlain's example of grace and compassion.

I also loved the final line about Chamberlain. "Dies of his wounds, June 1914 at the age of eighty-three.