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Most Hallowed Ground – 1864

Year

1990

Language

ENGLISH

Duration

1h 0m

Rating

TVPG

Author

Ken Burns

Publication Information

PBS

Summary

The episode begins with the presidential campaign of 1864 that set Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding general, George McClellan. The stakes are nothing less than the survival of the union itself: with Grant and Sherman stalled at Petersburg and Atlanta, opinion in the north has turned strongly against Lincoln and the war. But eleventh hour union victories at Mobile Bay, Atlanta, and the Shenandoah Valley, tilt the election to Lincoln, and the Confederacy's last hope for independence dies. In an ironic twist, poignantly typical of the Civil War, Lee's Arlington mansion is turned into a union military hospital and the estate becomes Arlington National Cemetery -- the union's most hallowed ground.

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