The two sides in the Civil War -- Slavery in America -- A nation divided -- Abraham Lincoln for president -- Secession -- Fort Sumter attacked -- Raw recruits -- The Battle of Bull Run -- Robert E. Lee, genral and gentleman -- Lincoln's generals -- The Battle of the Ironclads -- The Emancipation Proclamation -- Black soldiers -- Tragedy at Chancellorsville -- Civil War authors -- Gettysburg -- The draft riots -- Unconditional surrender Grant -- The Gettysburg Address -- Angels of the battlefield -- "Dearest wife" : soldiers' letters home -- The home front, North and South -- "Damn the torpedoes!" -- Sherman's March to the Sea -- The election of 1864 -- Battles in the backyard -- Surrender at Appomattox -- The president is shot! -- The ashes of war -- Unfinished business : Reconstruction -- Civil rights and wrongs -- Glossary -- The central players -- Timeline.
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