Ken Burn's Civil War Series



Volume Four
1863: Simply Murder

The war is in its third year, and enthusiasm for the fighting has fled. In their awful camps, men are dying of disease at the rate of two for every one slain in combat, and at morning call, the sound of coughing drowns out the roll of drums. Yet the struggle goes on. Robert E. Lee, at his most brilliant, devastates a vastly more numerous Union Army at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia; but the price of these victories is costly to the South as well. Thousands of men are dead, and resources are strained. At Vicksburg on the Mississippi, Ulysses S. Grant and his troops lay siege to the rebel stronghold, slowly throttling the South's lifeline. Meanwhile, General Lee prepares to invade Maryland and Pennsylvania, thereby setting the stage for the war's greatest battle.



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