Civil War: The Untold Story
In this revealing documentary, Elizabeth McGovern recounts how the struggle between North and South - long defined by battles like Gettysburg, Antietam, and Bull Run - was quite dependent on events in the lands then known as the West.
- 2014-2014
- 1 season
- American Public Television
- Documentary, Action & Adventure
In this revealing documentary, Elizabeth McGovern recounts how the struggle between North and South - long defined by battles like Gettysburg, Antietam, and Bull Run - was quite dependent on events in the lands then known as the West.
Season 1 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 2014
Episode 1
Bloody Shiloh
Tue, Apr 1, 2014 60 mins
The Confederate force's surprise attack against the Union in Shiloh, Tennessee results in some of the most brutal fighting of the Civil War.
Episode 2
A Beacon of Hope
Tue, Apr 1, 2014
General Ulysses S. Grant's counterattack at Shiloh leads to victory, and thousands of escaping slaves seek refuge with Union forces.
Episode 3
River of Death
Thu, Aug 27, 2026 53 mins
The Emancipation Proclamation changes the war from one of reunification to one of ending slavery, and gives African Americans freedom to fight.
Episode 4
Death Knell of the Confederacy
The Battle of Chikamauga continues. One of the biggest blunders of the civil war leaves a gap in the union line. James Longstreet's confederate forces split the union army in two making it the bloodiest battle of the western campaign only to be topped later by Gettysburg.
Episode 5
With Malice Toward None
Tue, Apr 1, 2014 60 mins
In the spring of 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman's force of 1-thousand men marches from Chattanooga toward Atlanta, Georgia, the industrial hub of the Deep South. Twenty miles north of Atlanta, Sherman's army is soundly defeated at Kennesaw Mountain. Sherman's defeat combined with Grant's stalemate in Virginia, enrages a Northern electorate already weary of war. Abraham Lincoln's chances for a second term dwindles. The Democrats nominate George McClellan. The party's platform calls for a negotiated peace with the Confederacy in which slaveholders will be allowed to keep their property. If McClellan is elected, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation will almost certainly be struck down.
