| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Thomas A. Desjardin. The Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory. Cambridge: Da Capo Press. 2003. Pp. xxii, 246. $26.00.

Gettysburg exerts a powerful hold on the American imagination. Widely perceived to be the moment when Confederate fortunes turned inexorably toward Appomattox, the battle offers a number of famous and intensely dramatic moments, among them the defense of Little Round Top by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Twentieth Maine Infantry and the massive rebel assault known as Pickett's Charge. A scene from Michael Shaara's novel The Killer Angels (1974), which the film Gettysburg (1993) translated to the screen, conveys the commonly accepted centrality of the battle. As the Army of the Potomac marches toward Gettysburg, Colonel Chamberlain leaves no doubt about the impending action: "I think if we lose this fight the war will be over."

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