DESCRIPTIVE VIDEOS - Braille Institute

The Civil War: Episode 2 – 1862 - A Very Bloody Affair
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From the Peninsular Campaign to Shiloh. It is eight months after Bull Run, and
1,000,000 men are massing along a 1,000-mile front. Washington is a madhouse
with hordes of opportunists jostling for advantage - "too many pigs for the teats,"
Lincoln observes dryly.
The Civil War: Episode 3 – 1862 - Forever Free
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Emancipation: The War Ennobled. The Union giant appears helpless. McClellan
abandons his attempt to capture Richmond. The talk in Washington is that the
North may lose the war.
The Civil War: Episode 4 – 1863 - Simply Murder
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Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. 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.
The Civil War: Episode 5 – 1863 - The Universe of Battle
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From Gettysburg to Lookout Mountain. Summer, 1863. After the spring's great
victories and feeling his Army invincible, Lee drives north again with 73,000
men. He meets 90,000 Federals at the small Pennsylvania farming town of
Gettysburg. And for three of the most crucial days of the war, the two armies are
locked in what one Massachusetts private terms "a perfect hell on earth;" 51,000
men fall, one in every three, and when the firing dies, Lee is in retreat, never again
to threaten the North.
The Civil War: Episode 6 – 1864 - Valley of the Shadow of Death
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The Wilderness to Atlanta. For three years, Robert E. Lee has met, measured, and
defeated a string of Union generals. "Someday," he worries, "they may send me a
general I do not understand." Now, Lincoln elevates U.S. Grant to commander of
all Union Armies and brings him east to face the brilliant Lee.
The Civil War: Episode 7 – 1864 - Most Hallowed Ground
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