Civil War Journal

To keep South Carolina in the Union, the Constitutional Convention allows slavery.

In 1859, Rep. Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder by reason of temporary insanity, then he becomes a Union general.

Galusha Pennypacker, Micah Jenkins and Adelbert Ames were among the young men who rose to military prominence during the Civil War.

Gen. Robert E. Lee's Arlington, Va., home becomes a national military cemetery.

The Civil War was riddled with cases of inhumane treatment of prisoners of war.

The glory and the pain of the Battle of Gettysburg and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address are recalled. Host: Danny Glover.

The Battle of Chattanooga establishes Gen. Ulysses S. Grant as a major leader.

Typhoid, dysentery, poor diet and unsanitary conditions were deadly foes soldiers faced during the Civil War.

Prior to the Civil War, many opposing leaders -- including Gens. Grant and Lee -- were West Point classmates.

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