"The Burning of Atlanta" is the story of the destruction of a major city near the end of the war, and the desperation and terror this causes in the lives of those who watch their entire society collapse around them.
The story of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a brilliant and very controversial Confederate general in the War Between the States. Even now, more than 150 years after the end of the war, Forrest has remained surrounded in controversy.
A look at a group of Union and Confederate cavalry from late 1862 until the end of the Civil War in 1865.
When the Confederacy can no longer finance massive armies, Wade Hampton III, using his own money started, financed, and supplied his own infantry, cavalry, and artillery to help fight the war.
The story follows each crew member and their commander, leading up to the historic encounter with the U.S.S. Housatonic, in Charleston Harbor.