Worried about the loss of battlefield land in Virginia, he penned a letter that led to the creation of the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites in July 1987 – a predecessor of the American Battlefield Trust. His legacy includes the 60,000 acres saved by the Trust since the meeting he inspired nearly 40 years ago. Explore Don Pfanz's legacy: https://www.battlefields.org/preserve/champions/don-pfanz.

A 2 hours documentary about the American Civil War (1861 – 1865) The War Between States.

Contents：

00:00:00 Intro : American Civil War

00:09:55 Origins of the American Civil War

00:14:05 Lincoln's election

00:16:03 Secession crisis

00:24:54 Battle of Fort Sumter

00:29:13 Attitude of the border states

00:34:58 -- War --

00:35:47 Mobilization

00:40:56 Southern Unionists

00:41:40 Prisoners

00:42:31 Women

00:44:09 Union Navy

00:48:42 Union blockade

00:52:03 Economic impact

00:55:19 -- Eastern theater --

00:56:11 Army of the Potomac

00:57:24 Army of Northern Virginia

01:12:28 -- Western theater --

01:13:14 Army of the Cumberland and Army of the Tennessee

01:24:58 -- Trans-Mississippi theater --

01:31:14 -- Lower seaboard theater --

01:36:21 -- Pacific coast theater --

01:36:42 Conquest of Virginia

01:40:35 Grant's Overland Campaign

01:44:14 Sheridan's Valley Campaign

01:46:21 S. March to the Sea

01:49:53 The Waterloo of the Confederacy

01:51:41 End of the war

01:59:07 Casualties