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The Killer Angels Slavery Quotes

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Quote #13

"Well, then, I don't care how much political fast-talking you hear, that's what it's all about and that's what them fellers died for, and I tell you, Lawrence, I don't understand it at all." (4.6.17)

By the end of the story, Joshua Chamberlain and his brother, Tom, have reached some moral clarity about the war: they see that it was caused by slavery. Of course, Chamberlain basically thought this before—but, now, after Gettysburg, it seems totally obvious to him.