Civil War Retold Part 4-Beginning of the End

CIVIL WAR RETOLD PART 4-Wednesday, June 4, 6:00pm. Beginning if The End

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR RETOLD Wednesdays, 6:00pm Please register for each session separately. April 9, 2025, marks the 160th anniversary of the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. Join us to kick off a four-part program that retells the most captivating and seminal event in American history. The American Civil War Retold is the video presentation of how the United States was transformed through the words of the three most central figures of the time – Jefferson Davis, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln – as communicated by three news reporters who describe the events as they unfold, in time linear fashion.

April 9, 6:00pm: Part 1: It’s War. November 1860 to December 1861. Lincoln is elected; Southern States secede. Northerners think the South is bluffing…until Bull Run. by three news reporters who describe the events as they unfold, in time linear fashion. 

April 23, 6:00pm: Part 2: The Proclamation. January to December 1862. Fighting intensifies, Confederate Army dominates in the East, Grant emerges in the West, Union victory at Antietam opens door for Lincoln. 

May 7, 6:00pm: Part 3: Ups and Downs. January to December 1863. Lee shocks at Chancellorsville, then invades the North. Grant’s persistence at Vicksburg, bloody Gettysburg, Lincoln’s address.

June 4, 6:00pm: Part 4: Beginning of the End. January 1864 to April 1865. Bloodshed continues, Lincoln re-election in doubt, Grant v Lee, Appomattox. It is often said the country entered the war as the United States, plural, and emerged a nation, as the United States, singular. Come experience this transformation.