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Describes the political infighting that threatened to swamp Lincoln's administration. Follows McClellan's ill-fated campaign on the Virginia Peninsula.

Describes the presidential campaign of 1864 and how Union victories at Mobile Bay, Atlanta and the Shenandoah Valley tilt the election to Lincoln.

This episode concludes the series with Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Lincoln's assassination and the capture of John Wilkes Booth, and the fate of the series' major characters. Finally, the episode considers the consequence and meaning of the war that transformed the country from a collection of states to the nation we are today.

Gives a biographical comparison of Grant and Lee. Chronicles the series of battles that pitted the two generals against each other from the Wilderness to Petersburg in Virginia.