The Civil War: Most Hallowed Ground (1864) - Episode 7

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The program begins with the presidential election of 1864 that set Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding general, George McClellan. The stakes were nothing less than the survival of the Union itself: with Grant and Sherman stalled at Petersburg and Atlanta, opinion in the North had turned strongly against the war. But 11th-hour victories at Mobile Bay, Atlanta, and the Shenandoah Valley tilted the election to Lincoln, and the Confederacy's last hope for independence died
Nathan Bedford Forrest. (1:02)
Stalled Outside Petersburg (3:05)
Wild For Peace (1:43)
Election of 1864 (1:08)
Siege at Petersburg (3:12)
Nathan Bedford Forrest: Master of Lightening Raid (3:51)
North's Darkest Hour (1:45)
Campaign of 1864 (2:05)
Lincoln Doubts Re-election (0:57)
Spies (3:07)
Tunnel of Death (3:29)
Depths of Misery: Letter from an Ironclad (2:31)
Army Headquarters (2:34)
Promised Land: Equal Pay (1:10)
Damn the Torpedoes: Union Admiral David Farragut (0:46)
Atlanta: Sherman Arrives (2:47)
Battle of Atlanta: Hood Withdraws (2:54)
Atlanta Under Siege (2:12)
Sherman's Atlanta: Archival Photos (0:59)
Sherman's March (1:39)
South Responds (1:21)
War Profiteers (3:34)
Bloody Bill Anderson (0:39)
Prisoners of War (3:14)
Mass Graves: Living Dead (2:18)
Bad News for Confederates (2:35)
Lincoln is Re-elected (2:11)
Signs of Dissolution (2:07)
Thanksgiving (1:10)
John Wilkes Booth (0:57)
Never Ending List of Dead (2:05)
Arlington National Cemetery (1:58)

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