"...television and video series from the National Museum of American History is a sweeping and compelling look at the war's military, political and social history. Each episode features dramatic reenactments of important campaigns; first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses and participants read by distinguished actors; period photographs, paintings and artifacts; intriguing expert challenges to traditional historical thinking; original contemporary illustrations; computer enhanced maps; and music of the time"--Container.

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Fort Sumter -- First Manassas -- Wilson's Creek -- Fort Donelson -- Port Royal -- Monitor and Virginia -- Shiloh -- The Battles for New Orleans and the Mississippi River -- Shenandoah Valley -- Peninsula campaign -- Cedar Mountain -- Second Manassas -- Antietam -- Fredericksburg.