The Killer Angels
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Monday, June 29, 1863: Chapter 1 Monday, June 29, 1863: Chapter 2 Monday, June 29, 1863: Chapter 3 Monday, June 29, 1863: Chapter 4 Wednesday, July 1, 1863: Chapter 1 Wednesday, July 1, 1863: Chapter 2 Wednesday, July 1, 1863: Chapter 3 Wednesday, July 1, 1863: Chapter 4 Wednesday, July 1, 1863: Chapter 5 Wednesday, July 1, 1863: Chapter 6 Wednesday, July 1, 1863: Chapter 7 Thursday, July 2, 1863: Chapter 1 Thursday, July 2, 1863: Chapter 2 Thursday, July 2, 1863: Chapter 3 Thursday, July 2, 1863: Chapter 4 Thursday, July 2, 1863: Chapter 5 Thursday, July 2, 1863: Chapter 6 Friday, July 3, 1863: Chapter 1 Friday, July 3, 1863: Chapter 2 Friday, July 3, 1863: Chapter 3 Friday, July 3, 1863: Chapter 4 Friday, July 3, 1863: Chapter 5 Friday, July 3, 1863: Chapter 6
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All Themes Honor Old World vs. New World Idealism vs. Disillusionment Slavery and Freedom
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All Characters James Longstreet Robert E. Lee Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Buster Kilrain Tom Chamberlain Harrison John Buford Arthur Lyon Fremantle Joseph Bucklin George Pickett Lewis Armistead Richard Brooke (“Dick”) Garnett Jim Kemper Thomas J. (“Stonewall”) Jackson Winfield Scott Hancock John Reynolds Harry Heth Richard Ewell Jubal Early George Gordon Meade Dred Scott The Escaped Slave John Bell Hood J. E. B. (“Jeb”) Stuart
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The Killer Angels

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Michael Shaara
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Jim Kemper Character Analysis

Kemper is a Confederate Brigadier General. He served with Longstreet, Pickett, Armistead, and Garnett in the Mexican War and leads a brigade under Pickett at Gettysburg. He is known to be stoic, with a political background, having served as speaker of the Virginia House of Representatives. He is suspicious of foreigners and, upon meeting Fremantle, immediately questions him about rumors of English intervention on behalf of the Confederacy. He is a stolid believer in “the Cause,” arguing to whomever will listen that the war is being fought for freedom from the rule of a foreign government, and not because of slavery. During Pickett’s Charge, he rides his own horse in solidarity with Garnett. He is mortally wounded during the battle.

Jim Kemper Quotes in The Killer Angels

The The Killer Angels quotes below are all either spoken by Jim Kemper or refer to Jim Kemper. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Monday, June 29, 1863: Chapter 4 Quotes

Pickett answered obligingly, unconcerned, “Well, Jim Kemper kept needling our English friend about why they didn’t come and join in with us, it being in their interest and all, and the Englishman said that it was a very touchy subject, since most Englishmen figured the war was all about, ah, slavery, and then old Kemper got a bit outraged and had to explain to him how wrong he was, and Sorrel and some others joined in, but no harm done.”

“Damn fool,” Kemper said. “He still thinks it’s about slavery.”

Related Characters: George Pickett (speaker), Jim Kemper (speaker), Arthur Lyon Fremantle, G. Moxley Sorrel
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Page Number: 62
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Jim Kemper Quotes in The Killer Angels

The The Killer Angels quotes below are all either spoken by Jim Kemper or refer to Jim Kemper. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Honor Theme Icon
).
Monday, June 29, 1863: Chapter 4 Quotes

Pickett answered obligingly, unconcerned, “Well, Jim Kemper kept needling our English friend about why they didn’t come and join in with us, it being in their interest and all, and the Englishman said that it was a very touchy subject, since most Englishmen figured the war was all about, ah, slavery, and then old Kemper got a bit outraged and had to explain to him how wrong he was, and Sorrel and some others joined in, but no harm done.”

“Damn fool,” Kemper said. “He still thinks it’s about slavery.”

Related Characters: George Pickett (speaker), Jim Kemper (speaker), Arthur Lyon Fremantle, G. Moxley Sorrel
Old World vs. New World Theme Icon
Slavery and Freedom Theme Icon
Page Number: 62
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