Shaara's mastery of the short story may have contributed to the unusual format he used in The Killer Angels. He divided the novel into four major sections, one each to the three days of the battle and the first to June 29, 1863, as the armies groped their way through southern Pennsylvania, encountering one another at Gettysburg by mistake.
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