Talk:The Killer Angels

message: Please provide citation of reputable military historians who believe Chamberlain and the 20th Maine - after almost 150 years of honors - are now "overhyped".  I've never heard anything of the kind in my life, and in just the last week I've all of a sudden stumbled on no less than four people making this assertion without attribution (only this instance at Wikipedia specifically).  I'm more than willing to discuss the concept, but as I've said, I've never encountered anyone making the claim before now, so it sounds like I've just stumbled on a few people all listening to the same source trying a revisionism campaign.  Opusaug 05:25, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  20th Maine hype. 

message: That was an interesting assertion about Buster's name being an anachronism. Do we know whether Buster Kilrain was actually "born" in the US? The derivation of the nickname is English. Perhaps it was more common among Irish immigrants than you think.
Anyway, continuing in a trivial vain: Buster Kilrain was one of two famous fictitious characters at Gettysburg. Can anyone name the other? Hal Jespersen 20:23, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Buster Keaton was an unusual celebrity in that his recollections were rarely incorrect or even exagerrated.  It was his assertion that Buster was not used as a name in the US before it was given to him as a nickname.  Corroborative evidence is located here.  Whether or not it was used in Ireland is an excellent question which I don't know the answer to.  It's not listed as an Irish name here, although the page doesn't list nicknames..   proteus71 17:40 25 October 2005 (UTC)
Sorry, don't see the "corroborative evidence"--Buster Brown and Buster Crabbe weren't named for Buster Keaton. In any case, the sentence is entirely immaterial in the article. The Kilrain conjecture is interesting, but skip the Buster commentary. And supporting it with an equally undocumented assertion (HIS recollections were incorrect and HE claimed HE was the first Buster) compounds the issue.--Buckboard 07:43, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buster 

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BetacommandBot (talk) 10:41, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:The Killer Angels.jpg

message: "First, the actions of Chamberlain and the 20th Maine Infantry on Little Round Top have achieved enormous public awareness. Visitors touring the Gettysburg Battlefield rank the 20th Maine monument as their most important stop."
::Seems like this should probably be removed, not sure where you could ever find a survey or whatever to cite this.  There's other unverified/OR all over the article. Seems like this content comes from a time where referencing wasn't as emphasized as it is now. --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 23:12, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[wp:or|Original Research]] 

message: I recognize that Gods and Generals depicts an earlier period than The Killer Angels, but listing a book written by a different author, albeit the authors son, and written 20 years later, does not feel right being listed as Preceded By.  Killer Angels was not, to my knowledge, written as part of any "series". Boomcoach (talk) 14:58, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should Gods and Generals be listed as Preceding in the Infobox