Lincoln picks Ulysses S. Grant, a general who believes in winning at any cost, to command the Union Army.
The Iron Brigade fought heroically at Brawner's Farm, South Mountain and Antietam before suffering devastating losses at Gettysburg.
Men fight against their own family and friends during the Civil War.
Galusha Pennypacker, Micah Jenkins and Adelbert Ames were among the young men who rose to military prominence during the Civil War.
Dedication to their respective causes enabled both Union and Confederate foot soldiers to endure hardship and deprivation.
In 1859, Rep. Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder by reason of temporary insanity, then he becomes a Union general.
Robert E. Lee is known as much for his character as his leadership.
Sherman's army burns everything from Atlanta to Savannah, Ga.
A profile of Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain, a rhetoric professor who received the Medal of Honor for his defense of Little Round Top at Gettysburg, Pa.
Typhoid, dysentery, poor diet and unsanitary conditions were deadly foes soldiers faced during the Civil War.
Espionage agents.
Journalists Alfred Waud, Winslow Homer, Alexander Gardner bring war reports to the homefront.
The battle at Gettysburg affects the townspeople.
Confederate Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest becomes leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
Nurse Clara Barton and spy Rosa Greenhow are among women who take on new roles during the conflict.
Flamboyant Zouaves copy Algerian troop tactics, drills and daring.
The Union army defeated the Confederates in the 1864 battles at Franklin and Nashville as spectators watched.
Commercial development threatens historic battlefields.
The glory and the pain of the Battle of Gettysburg and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address are recalled. Host: Danny Glover.
Jeb Stuart, Virginia general and secret weapon of the South, originated the legend of the "unstoppable cavalry.".
Gens. Buford and Sheridan played important parts in the history of the federal cavalry.
The Civil War was riddled with cases of inhumane treatment of prisoners of war.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis fought valiantly in the Mexican War, but his reputation is still stained.
The South blames Gen. James Longstreet for defeat at Gettysburg.
Gen. Robert E. Lee's Arlington, Va., home becomes a national military cemetery.
Rare photographs and new research help pay tribute to the soldiers who lost their lives at the bloody Battle of Gettysburg.
Industrial-age weapons first appear on Civil War battlefields.
Sharpshooters kill Jenny Wade at Gettysburg; 73-year-old John Burns takes arms.
Although Union forces attacked early in the war, the citizens of New Orleans continued to fight for three years after the city fell.
Little-known Union Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock's career included the Mexican War, western expansion, the Civil War and Reconstruction.
A profile of Civil War photographer Mathew Brady whose stunning pictures produced a visual record of the war.
A horrific battle at Fort Sumter in South Carolina opens the Civil War in April 1861.
In 1862 the ironclads Monitor and Merrimac clash, changing naval warfare forever.
The hesitancy of the Army commander at the Potomac to attack was a source of exasperation for President Lincoln.
John Singleton Mosby was a resourceful Confederate raider.
America's first black regiment, the 54th Massachusetts, fights at Fort Wagner.
Photographer Alexander Gardner captures bloody battlefield scenes.
In many respects, John Brown's charge on Harpers Ferry sparked the war.
Both sides learn the horror of war at the First Battle of Bull Run.
Pickett charges Union forces at Gettysburg.
Prior to the Civil War, many opposing leaders -- including Gens. Grant and Lee -- were West Point classmates.