The saga of the sweeping battle that helped establish Gen. Ulysses S. Grant as a major leader. Follows the fight from lookout Mountain to Orchard Knob to Missionary Ridge, and demonstrates how Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg blundered his way to defeat.

The story of how the Arlington, Virginia, home of Confederate General Robert E. Lee became a Union cemetery and later the official national military cemetery.

The tale of the Civil War soldier's deadliest foe--disease. Typhoid and dysentery claimed more lives than battlefield wounds, and poor diet, unsanitary conditions, and emotional strain also took a deadly toll.

The story of the great battle's aftermath and the events leading to the dedication of the national cemetery and President Lincoln's immortal Gettysburg Address.

An examination of one of the most shameful sagas of the Civil War--the inhuman treatment of POWs by both the North and the South. Includes a look at facilities in the camps and the crimes committed against the prisoners.

U.S. Military Academy classmates who fought on opposite sides of the Civil War.                                                                        

Profile of the Union general who, before the war, became the first defendant in a murder trial to be acquitted on a plea of temporary insanity. Sickles killed a man he accused of having an affair with his wife.

The remarkable tale of the very young men who rose to high rank in the war. Includes profiles of Galusha Pennypacker, who became the youngest general in American History, and Adelbert Amers, who won the Medal of Honor.