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Robert E. Lee is known as much for his character as his leadership.
Sherman's army burns everything from Atlanta to Savannah, Ga.
A profile of Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain, a rhetoric professor who received the Medal of Honor for his defense of Little Round Top at Gettysburg, Pa.
Battle of Gettysburg aftermath; Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Soldiers fight diseases such as typhoid and dysentery.
The Confederate army undermines the Union soldiers at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
Journalists Alfred Waud, Winslow Homer, Alexander Gardner bring war reports to the homefront.
The battle at Gettysburg affects the townspeople.
In Philadelphia in 1776, a bargain was struck with South Carolina allowing slavery—it was a deal that would lead to disaster. Though not the only issue dividing North and South, slavery would spark the Civil War.
Confederate Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest becomes leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Battle of Chattanooga establishes Gen. Ulysses S. Grant as a major leader.
Nurse Clara Barton and spy Rosa Greenhow are among women who take on new roles during the conflict.
Flamboyant Zouaves copy Algerian troop tactics, drills and daring.
The Union army defeated the Confederates in the 1864 battles at Franklin and Nashville as spectators watched.
Commercial development threatens historic battlefields.
In 1863 Abraham Lincoln dedicates the military cemetery at Gettysburg.
Jeb Stuart, Virginia general and secret weapon of the South, originated the legend of the "unstoppable cavalry."
Gens. Buford and Sheridan played important parts in the history of the federal cavalry.
Union and Confederacy employ spies.
POW camps; crimes against prisoners.
Jefferson Davis; Mexican War; president of the Confederacy.
The South blames Gen. James Longstreet for defeat at Gettysburg.
Gen. Robert E. Lee's Arlington, Va., home becomes a national military cemetery.
Union forces lay siege to Charleston, S.C., by land and sea
Industrial-age weapons first appear on Civil War battlefields.
Sharpshooters kill Jenny Wade at Gettysburg; 73-year-old John Burns takes arms.
The story of the horrific fight for the strategically vital Mississippi city. Under heavy bombardment, the streets flowed with blood as civilians fled to shelters and caves.
