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Most Hallowed Ground – 1864
Year
1990
Language
ENGLISH
Duration
1h 0m
Rating
TVPG
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.