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Historical person
Winfield Scott Hancock is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and court politics and dynastic power. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.
In Jeff Shaara’s Gods and Generals, beginning in 1858, the novel follows Robert E. Lee, Thomas J. Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain as sectional conflict moves towards secession and war. In Jeff Shaara’s The Killer Angels, on the opposing ridges, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, John Buford and Winfield Scott Hancock prepare to hold ground on which the campaign may turn.
Series
The Civil War Trilogy presents the eastern theatre of the American Civil War through three connected novels. Jeff Shaara’s Gods and Generals follows the principal commanders from the approach of secession to Chancellorsville; Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer Angels reconstructs Gettysburg; and Jeff Shaara’s The Last Full…
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