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The CSS Albemarle held back Union ships from North Carolina until Lieutenant William B. Cushing and a group of volunteers launched a surprise attack using a tiny boat and a spare torpedo. The Albemarle sank, shortening the was and making Cushing, the only survivor, a hero.
It was a month of terrible possibilities: continued guerrilla warfare, a coup, a destroyed government after Lincoln's assassination. This documentary examines how the nation avoided mayhem and continued bloodshed, and instead started on the long path to reconciliation.
It was the single deadliest day in American history: twelve hours of fighting and nearly 23,000 casualties. The stakes for both sides were high, but what accounted for the bloodshed? Experts in archaeology, weapons, and pathology explore this haunting question.
A small town in Pennsylvania was the site of the bloodiest conflict in American history, a battle that took down 50,000 troops in three days. Experts in physics, geology, crowd control, and cartography join forces with military historians to better understand this tragic, epic battle.
At Shiloh, the South stunned Northern forces with a surprise attack, and soon took a commanding position. Why then did they withdraw in disarray the very next day? Using forensic evidence, this documentary presents a new theory as to why things went awry for the South at Shiloh.
Both sides engaged in covert operations designed to frighten the enemy, disrupt supply lines, and destroy morale. Among the ingenious examples were a plot to burn down New York City, daring prison breaks, the deployment of railroad torpedoes, and guerilla warfare.
The biggest battle in all of Kansas and the largest cavalry attack of the entire war took place at Mine Creek, with the Union winning a stunning victory. Why, in spite of all this, is Mine Creek virtually unknown?
Guns were around for centuries before the 1860s, but the innovations of the Industrial Revolution brought them to a new level of precision and handling. The deadly result: more Americans were killed in the Civil War than in all other American wars combined.
From 1862 to 1865, 26,000 Confederate soldiers passed through Camp Douglas, a rarely mentioned prisoner-of-war camp in Chicago. Inhumane conditions-filth, disease, starvation, torture, bitter cold-resulted in the deaths of 6,000 men at this "Andersonville of the North."
Innovative, intimate and emotionally charged, LINCOLN explores the inner conflicts that plagued and inspired the President who called himself "the loneliest man in the world." LINCOLN presents a profound and insightful meditation on a man few knew, seen through the eyes of the President himself.
