Episodes

9 episodes in this season

The Cause: 1861

100 min

A Very Bloody Affair: 1862

69 min

Forever Free: 1862

77 min

Simply Murder: 1863

63 min

The Universe of Battle: 1863

97 min

Valley of the Shadow of Death: 1864

71 min

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Most Hallowed Ground: 1864

73 min

War Is All Hell: 1865

70 min

The Better Angels of Our Nature: 1865

70 min

The Civil War

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19901h 13m7.9

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Most Hallowed Ground: 1864

Season 1 · Episode 7 · Sep 26, 1990

The episode begins with the presidential election of 1864 that sets Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding general, George McClellan. The stakes are nothing less than the survival of the Union itself: with Grant and Sherman stalled at Petersburg and Atlanta, opinion in the North has turned strongly against the war. But 11th-hour victories at Mobile Bay, Atlanta, and the Shenandoah Valley tilt the election to Lincoln and the Confederacy's last hope for independence dies. In an ironic twist, poignantly typical of the Civil War, Lee's Arlington mansion is turned into a Union military hospital and the estate becomes Arlington National Cemetery, the Union's most hallowed ground.

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The Civil War

TV Series

19901h 13m7.9

DocumentaryWar & Politics

Now playing

Most Hallowed Ground: 1864

Season 1 · Episode 7 · Sep 26, 1990

6.5episode rating

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