The Ultimate Civil War Series

2012
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The Ultimate Civil War Series episodes (7)

1 Sins of the Fathers
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The Road to Civil War, battles over Slavery turns violent in Kansas and Harper's Ferry. The election of Lincoln, Secession, Fort Sumter and the First Battle of Manassas.
2 A Deep, Steady Thunder
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The first battles of the war go poorly for the North, the rise of General Lee and the 1862 invasion of Maryland.
3 Days of Infamy
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The Battle of Antietam, Northern leaders fail at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville - Lee marches toward Gettysburg.
4 The Turning Points
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Brandy Station - the largest Cavalry battle followed by the epic struggle at Gettysburg and the fall of Vicksburg.
5 Not War, But Murder
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Chickamauga and Chattanooga in the west. Grant takes command and begins to attack Lee in Virginia. The Wilderness to Cold Harbor and the Petersburg siege.
6 The Killing Fields
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Battles for Petersburg - The Crater. The futile fights of Franklin and Nashville in Tennessee. The Battle of Five Forks shatters Lee's Army.
7 New Birth of Freedom
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April 2, 1865 and the fall of Petersburg and Richmond. Lee surrenders to Grant and Sherman takes the surrender of the western Confederate Army. Lincoln's assassination and the second war over reconstruction and the citizenship of former slaves. The legacy of the war.

About this show

This soon-to-be classic documentary mini-series traces the causes, courses as well as the major events and personalities of the American Civil War! Between 1861 and 1865, this epic American story of struggle and survival was written in blood, and in this series is told mostly from first-hand accounts and in the spoken words of the participants themselves, through their diaries, letters, and memoirs. The series concludes with Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House and the surrender of the western Confederate Army to Sherman in North Carolina in the spring of 1865. It then explores the legacy of slavery and the consequences and meaning of a war that transformed the country forever.

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