A grave beginning: John Brown stirs America's passions

The South rises: the Union is ripped asunder

A march to greatness: Robert E. Lee takes command

Unbound for glory: Frederick Douglass on the road to freedom

The commanding presence: the genius of Stonewall Jackson

Bloodied brothers: the battle of Gettysburg

Intoxicated by war: U.S. Grant battles for respect

The states of war: the war comes home

the leading man: Abraham Lincoln runs into history

Burning man: General Sherman marches through Georgia

The last shots are fired: the war ends and Lincoln is assassinated