Smithsonian's Great Battles Of The Civil War: Volume 1

Smithsonian's Great Battles Of The Civil War: Volume 1

More than 550,000 American soldiers died during the battles of the Civil War. This critically acclaimed television and video series from the National Museum of American History is a sweeping and compelling look at the war's military, political and social history. Each episode features dramatic reenactments of important campaigns; first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses and participants read by distinguished actors; period photo graphs, paintings and artifacts; intriguing expert challenges to traditional historical thinking; original contemporary illustrations; computer enhanced maps; and music of the time. The strategies and motivations that created this devastating and heroic period come alive in this comprehensive reference, a visually stunning, provocative history unlike any other Civil War program you've ever seen.

Features:

· Fort Sumter

· First Manassas

· Ft. Donelson

· Ironclads and Navies

· The War in the Far West

· Shiloh

· The Battles for New Orleans and the Mississippi River

· Shenandoah Valley

· Peninsula Campaign

· Second Manassas

· Antietam

· Corinth

· Perryville

· Fredericksburg

· Intervening Campaigns