This is the second half of a 6 disc set.
Disc 4
Episode Six: Valley of the Shadow of Death (1864)
It's a chess game between two masters. The Union's General Grant and the Confederacy's General Lee are a study in contrasts as they vie for victory. In one month's time, their armies suffer more casualties than in three years of war, but the impasse continues.
Episode Seven: Most Hallowed Ground (1864)
The presidential campaign of 1864 finds a nation truly divided against itself, and Lincoln seems doomed to defeat. Unexpectedly, eleventh-hour victories sway the votes Lincoln's way, and the flame of Confederate independence flickers out.
Disc 5
Episode Eight: War is All Hell (1865)
Sherman's legendary "March to the Sea" portends the war's end. In the stillness of Appomattox Court House, Lee's dramatic surrender to Grant finally unfolds. As the news echoes through Washington, a plan for teh South's revenge is hatched in the angry mind of a man named John Wilkes Booth.
Episode Nine: The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865)
The Union's triumph quickly turns to sorrow. Just five days after victory, President Lincoln dies by the hand of John Wilkes Booth. This final episode surveys the fates of the people who left their indelible marks on this remarkable era. And it leaves us with insights into the meaning of a conflict that helped make us the nation we are today.
Disc 6
Special Features
- Complete High Definition Shelby Foote Interviews
- Shelby Foote Interview (2002)
- Remembering The Civil War: Interview with Ken Burns
- The Civil War in the Classroom