The Civil War(1990)
Overview
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Abraham Lincoln
Mary Chestnut
Ulysses S. Grant
Frederick Douglass
Joshua Chamberlain
Walt Whitman
William Tecumseh Sherman
Elisha Hunt Rhodes
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