A universal theme for war is that war is bad and it is not the answer In The Killer Angels the plot is about the Civil War so there is a lot of fighting War is not the answer and it is really bad because a lot of people die homes and jobs are destroyed and the economy suffers Many people died in the Civil War It had the most American casualties in any war because both sides were American In the book a lot of people died and some of them were important people like A P Hill and Johnston Pettigrew