The Civil War

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The Cause: 1861

Sep 23, 1990 · 1h 40m

E02▶

A Very Bloody Affair: 1862

Sep 24, 1990 · 1h 9m

E03▶

Forever Free: 1862

Sep 24, 1990 · 1h 17m

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Simply Murder: 1863

Sep 25, 1990 · 1h 3m

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The Universe of Battle: 1863

Sep 25, 1990 · 1h 37m

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Valley of the Shadow of Death: 1864

Sep 26, 1990 · 1h 11m

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Most Hallowed Ground: 1864

Sep 26, 1990 · 1h 13m

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War Is All Hell: 1865

Sep 27, 1990 · 1h 10m

E09▶

The Better Angels of Our Nature: 1865

Sep 27, 1990 · 1h 10m

The episode begins with the presidential election of 1864 that sets Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding general, George McClellan. The stakes are nothing less than the survival of the Union itself: with Grant and Sherman stalled at Petersburg and Atlanta, opinion in the North has turned strongly against the war. But 11th-hour victories at Mobile Bay, Atlanta, and the Shenandoah Valley tilt the election to Lincoln and the Confederacy's last hope for independence dies. In an ironic twist, poignantly typical of the Civil War, Lee's Arlington mansion is turned into a Union military hospital and the estate becomes Arlington National Cemetery, the Union's most hallowed ground.