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Richard Brooke (“Dick”) Garnett
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
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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.”
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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:
).
Monday, June 29, 1863: Chapter 4
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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.”
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