Ken Burn's Civil War Series



Volume Two
1862: Very Bloody Affair

It is eight months after Bull Run, and 1,000,000 men are massing along a 1,000-mile front. Washington is a mad-house with hordes of opportunists jostling for advantage - "too many pigs for the teats," Lincoln observes dryly. General George McClellan, an able organizer but hesitant warrior, slowly leads his huge Army of the Potomac up the Virginia Peninsula toward the Confederate capital of Richmond. But when he encounters only a tiny Confederate force, he halts and digs in; even Lincoln cannot budge him. To the West, however, a different sort of general, Ulysses S. Grant, meets the south's Albert S. Johnston in a battle called Shiloh: a Hebrew word meaning "place of peace". For two days 100,000 men slam viciously into each other. At the end, the Union holds the field, and 23,000 soldiers have fallen: the same as at Waterloo. And there are another 20 Waterloos to come.



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