Battles Of The American Civil War

The Red River Campaign was supposed to crush Confederate resistance in Louisiana and capture Shreveport. Instead, poor planning, divided command, and one devastating defeat turned it into a complete disaster for the Union.

Fort Sumter was more than the first battle of the American Civil War. It was the breaking point that turned months of secession, threats, and failed negotiations into open war. Follow Major Robert Anderson’s secret occupation of the unfinished fort, the failed relief missions, the Confederate bombardment, and the surrender that changed the nation forever.

Shot 5 times at Antietam, John Brown Gordon rose from an untrained captain to one of Robert E. Lee’s last corps commanders. But his controversial postwar life left behind a legacy far darker than his battlefield legend.

Stonewall Jackson’s legendary flank attack shattered the Union XI Corps at Chancellorsville, but his greatest triumph would also become his last.

For decades, compromise kept the United States together while slavery and sectional division pulled it apart. This episode follows the crises, violence, and political collapse that brought the country to Fort Sumter and the brink of Civil War.