The Civil War

War is All Hell: 1865

E8    Sep 27, 1990    70m    TV-14
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The episode begins with William Tecumseh Sherman's brilliant march to the sea, which brings the war to the heart of Georgia and the Carolinas and spells the end of the Confederacy. In March, following Lincoln's second inauguration, first Petersburg and then Richmond finally fall to Grant's army. Lee's tattered Army of Northern Virginia flees westward towards a tiny crossroads town called Appomattox Court House. There the dramatic and deeply moving surrender of Lee to Grant takes place. The episode ends in Washington where John Wilkes Booth begins to dream of vengeance for the South.
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Cast of War is All Hell: 1865
  • David McCulloughNarrator
  • Sam WaterstonAbraham Lincoln
  • Julie HarrisMary Chestnut
  • Jason RobardsUlysses S. Grant
  • Morgan FreemanFrederick Douglass
  • Paul RoeblingJoshua Chamberlain
  • Garrison KeillorWalt Whitman
  • George BlackRobert E. Lee
  • Arthur MillerWilliam Tecumseh Sherman
  • Christopher MurneyElisha Hunt Rhodes
  • Charles McDowellSamuel R. Watkins
  • Horton FooteJefferson Davis
  • George PlimptonGeorge Templeton Strong
  • Philip BoscoHorace Greeley
  • Terry CourierGeorge B. McClellan
  • Jody PowellStonewall Jackson / Various
  • Studs TerkelBenjamin Butler / Various
  • Hoyt AxtonVarious
  • John HartfordVarious
  • Colleen DewhurstVarious
  • Shelby FooteVarious
  • Ronnie GilbertVarious
  • Jeremy IronsVarious
  • Gene JonesVarious
  • Derek JacobiVarious
  • Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Various
  • Laurence FishburneVarious
  • Pamela ReedVarious
  • M. Emmet WalshVarious

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