Blood and Fury: America's Civil War

Dec. 1862: Following the strategic Union win at Antietam, Federal forces clash with a massive Rebel army in the town of Fredericksburg, Virginia. In what will become the largest fight of the Civil War.

The Battle of Gettysburg, the momentous three-day engagement in Pennsylvania in July 1863 that marked the turning point of the Civil War, is recalled.

The Battle of Nashville, a December 1864 clash in which Union forces under Gen. John Hood routed Gen. George Thomas' Confederates in Tennessee, is recalled.

The Battle of Petersburg in Virginia finally ends in the spring of 1865 after months of trench warfare.