List of Videos

(You can check them out for one night)

1. Iron Jaws: Civil War Artillery

Robert E. Lee

2. Civil War Medicine

3. John Brown’s War

Antietam

4. The Monitor v. The CSS Virginia

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Unsung Heroes of Gettysburg

5. Jefferson Davis: The Traitor President

Sherman and the March to the Sea

6. John Singleton Mosby – The Gray Ghost

Battle of Fredericksburg

7. Robert E. Lee

Mr. Lincoln’s Butcher: General Grant

The Civil War out West

8. John Brown’s War

Antietam

Jefferson Davis: The Traitor President

Sherman and the March to the Sea

The Death Camps

Lincoln and Gettysburg

9. The Underground Railroad

Days of Darkness: The Gettysburg Civilians

10. Civil War Spies

11. The Death Camps

Lincoln and Gettysburg

12. Frederick Douglass

The Secret War: Civil War Spies

13. General James Longstreet: Lee’s Prodigal Son

The Battle of Chattanooga

14. Lincoln’s Assassination Parts One and Two

Divided Houses: Families Split By War

15. Shadows of Lightning: Jeb Stuart and the Cavalry

The “Traitor” President: Jefferson Davis

Terrible Swift Sword: The Union Cavalry

16. West Point Classmates

Caught in the Maelstrom: Civilians in the War

The Hornet’s Nest at Shiloh

17. Mr. Lincoln’s Butcher: General Ulysses S. Grant

The Bloody Lane at Antietam

18. The Tragedy at Cold Harbor

The Bloodiest Day: Antietam

19. A House Divided: Mary and Abraham Lincoln (6 hrs.)

20. The Hornet's Nest at Shiloh

The Bloody Lane at Antietam

The Wheatfield at Gettysburg

21. John Brown's War

War Crimes: The Death Camps

22. Zouaves!

The Battle of Charleston

Born Killers: The Iron Brigade

23. The Boy Generals

First Ladies of the North and South

Dan Sickles: The General Who Got Away with Murder

24. Sherman and the March to the Sea

McClellan's Way

25. The Battle of First Bull Run

Alexander Gardner: War Photographer

The Secret HIstory of the Ku Klux Klan (2 hours)

26. John Brown's War

The US Civil War out West

Immigrants and the American Civil War

The Battle of Franklin and Nashville

27. The Gray Ghost: John Singleton Mosby

Women at War

Iron Jaws: The Killing Power of Civil War Artillery

28. Stonewall Jackson

Pickett's Charge

Surrender at Appomatox (dramatization)

Robert E. Lee

29. The Battle of Vicksburg

Trains at War

Destiny at Ft. Sumter

30. The Battle of Fredericksburg

Picture Perfect: The Pomp and Vision of Matthew Brady

Battlefield Medicine

31. Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Jeb Stuart and the Cavalry

Zouaves

Civilians in the War

General Grant

32. Pickett's Charge

Divided Houses

33. Trains at War

War Crimes: The Death Camps

Alexander Gardner: War Photographer

Stonewall Jackson

34. Iron Jaws: Artillery of the Civil War

John S. Mosby: The Gray Ghost

Siege of Vicksburg

Alan Pinkerton

35. Gettysburg

Civil War Guns

The First Impeachment (from This Week in History)

36. Fredericksburg

Robert E. Lee

The 54th Massachusetts

37. The Gettysburg Address and Lincoln (from C-Span, 2 1/2 hours)

38. Harriet Beecher Stowe (from C-Span, 2 1/2 hours)

Mark Twain (from C-Span, 2 1/2 hours)

Episode 1. Ken Burns: The Civil War: 1861 The Cause

At the Crossroads of Our Being

This volume covers the background to the war, election of 1860, Ft. Sumter, First Bull Run

(100 min.)

Episode 2. Ken Burns: The Civil War: 1862 A Very Bloody Affair

From the Peninsular Campaign to Shiloh

(60 min.)

Episode 3. Ken Burns: The Civil War: 1862 Forever Free

Emancipation: The War Ennobled

Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation

(75 min.)

Episode 4. Ken Burns: The Civil War: 1863 Simply Murder

Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville

(60 min.)

Episode 5. Ken Burns: The Civil War: 1863 The Universe of Battle

From Gettysburg to Lookout Mountain

Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Draft Riots, Gettysburg Address

(95 min.)

Episode 6. Ken Burns: The Civil War: 1864 Valley of the Shadow of Death

The Wilderness to Atlanta

The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Atlanta

(70 min.)

Episode 7. Ken Burns: The Civil War: Most Hallowed Ground

From the Crater to the Shenandoah

Petersburg, 1864 Election, Mobile Bay, Atlanta and the Shanandoah Valley

(70 min.)

Episode 8. Ken Burns: The Civil War: War is All Hell

The Final Offensives

Sherman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas, Petersburg, Richmond, Appomatox Courthouse

(70 min.)

Episode 9. Ken Burns: The Civil War:

Victory. Assassination. Rebirth

Lincoln's assassination, the fates of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman

(70 min.)

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