The Ultimate Civil War Series - Anniversary Edition DVD

The Civil War, As Told Through The Diaries And Letters Of Those Who Fought It

In four years, this war tore the country in half, became the deadliest conflict in American history, and forced a reckoning with slavery the nation could no longer put off. This 7-part series doesn't summarize that story from a distance. It's built from the actual diaries, letters, and memoirs of the soldiers and civilians who lived through Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, and Appomattox, backed by reenactments that put those battles back on the screen.

Included In This Collectible Treasure

Episode 1: Sins Of The Fathers
The road to war, from the violent clashes over slavery in Kansas and Harper's Ferry to Lincoln's election, Southern secession, Fort Sumter, and the first battle at Manassas

Episode 2: A Deep, Steady Thunder
The North's early military struggles, General Lee's rise as a commander, and the Confederate invasion of Maryland in 1862

Episode 3: Days Of Infamy
The bloody Battle of Antietam, crushing Northern defeats at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and Lee's march toward Gettysburg

Episode 4: The Turning Points
The cavalry clash at Brandy Station, the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg, and the fall of Vicksburg

Episode 5: Not War, But Murder
The western campaigns at Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Grant's rise to command, and the brutal fighting from the Wilderness to Petersburg

Episode 6: The Killing Fields
The long siege at Petersburg, the disaster at the Crater, the battles across Tennessee, and the fight at Five Forks

Episode 7: New Birth Of Freedom
The fall of Petersburg and Richmond, Lee's surrender to Grant, Sherman's surrender of the western Confederate Army, Lincoln's assassination, and the legacy the war left behind

From Kansas's bleeding prairies to Sherman's march through the Carolinas, this series doesn't pick a side. It gives you the war as both sides lived it, including what came after: slavery's end and a country left to figure out what freedom actually meant.

Features & Benefits

• 7-Episode Documentary Series
• Run time: ‎ 5 hours and 15 minutes
• The Complete War, From Fort Sumter To Appomattox
• Built From Real Civil War Diaries And Letters
• Union And Confederate Accounts, Side By Side
• Cinematic Battlefield Reenactments
• Covers Slavery's Legacy And The War's Aftermath
• A Must For Civil War Buffs And Classrooms

Own the war that defined a nation, told the way history should be: through the people who were actually there.