[Part 1] [Disc 1] Prelude to war -- The election of 1860 -- The lower South secedes -- The crisis at Fort Sumter -- The opposing sides, I -- The opposing sides, II ; [Disc 2] The common soldier -- First Manassas or Bull Run -- Contending for the border states -- Early Union triumphs in the west -- Shiloh and Corinth -- The Peninsula Campaign.
[Part 2] [Disc 3] The Seven Days' battles -- The Kentucky campaign of 1862 -- Antietam -- The background to emancipation -- Emancipation completed -- Filling the ranks ; [Disc 4] Sinews of war-finance and supply -- The war in the west, winter 1862-63 -- The war in Virginia, winter and spring 1862-63 -- Gettysburg -- Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Tullahoma -- A season of uncertainty, summer and fall 1863.
[Part 3] [Disc 5] Grant at Chattanooga -- The diplomatic front -- African-Americans in wartime, I -- African-Americans in wartime, II -- Wartime reconstruction -- The naval war ; [Disc 6] The river war & Confederate commerce raiders -- Women at war, I -- Women at war, II -- Stalemate in 1864 -- Sherman versus Johnston in Georgia -- The wilderness to Spotsylvania.
[Part 4] [Disc 7] Cold Harbor to Petersburg -- The Confederate home front, I -- The Confederate home front, II -- The Northern home front, I -- The Northern home front, II -- Prisoners of war ; [Disc 8] Mobile Bay and Atlanta -- Petersburg, the Crater, and the Valley -- The final campaigns -- Petersburg to Appomattox -- Closing scenes and reckonings -- Remembering the war.
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