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Union to Disunion
Uncle Tom, Meet Aunt Phillis | Delaying the Confrontation | The Presidential Election of 1860

Choosing War
Regimental Flags

The Reality of War
Lincoln and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus | Quantrill and Partisan Rangers | Dakota Conflict

The Emancipation Proclamation
The State of Slavery in 1861 | Slavery and the Confederate Constitution | Cavalry Carbine

1863: The War in Full
The Life of the Common Soldier | Disaster on Brown's Island (Arms Factory Explosion) | The Tredegar Iron Works

1864: Total War
Chaplaincy | A More Efficient War | The Presidential Election of 1864

Homefront
The Diarist Mary Chesnut

1865: Endgame
A Black Soldier Considers Bigotry | Surrender at Appomattox | An Instrument of Torture

Reconstruction
The Freedman's Bureau | Drum of the African American 10th Cavalry | Jubal Early and the Lost Cause

Legacy and Memory
The New South | Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Tredegar Digital DispatchesWelcome to the Tredegar Digital Dispatches page. The audio and video content listed below has been developed to enhance your experience of "In the Cause of Liberty" by exploring issues and events not covered in depth in the exhibit. Hear dramatic readings of historic documents, commentaries by Center staff, and learn the stories behind some of the artifacts on display.

But if you can't visit the Center, we think you will find these audio and video productions to be fascinating on their own. They can be downloaded to any MP3 player or you can view them on the player located on the right.

The audio and video content is organized by exhibit section and are generally listed in chronological order. To display the list of individual media for each section, please click the red arrows beneath the section description. Once the list is displayed you may right click (ctrl + click on Mac OS) on the file name and select the location where you wish to save the file from your pull down menu.

Union to Disunion

The Civil War was fueled by generations of regional disagreement over social, political and economic issues. The question of expanding slavery to new states and territories was the final quarrel that led the nation to war.

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Choosing War

For some, choosing which side of the impending conflict to join was simple. For others, it was an agonizing decision.

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The Reality of War

It was supposed to be over quickly. But by 1862 both sides came to realize that the war was going to be a protracted affair with far-reaching consequences.

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The Emancipation Proclamation

Though many in the South were not fighting for slavery, and many in the North were not fighting to abolish it, by 1863 it became the defining issue of the war.

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1863: The War in Full

1863 was a momentous year in the conflict, with the South achieving its greatest military victories but also suffering setbacks at Gettysburg and Vicksburg.

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1864: Total War

With Northern generals Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman waging a strategy designed to sap the South's will to fight, both sides began to imagine a future quite different from the one they had left just a few years back.

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Homefront

In both the North and the South, the loss of manpower, inflation, and shortages of every kind had repercussions for all communities. No one was able to avoid being impacted by the war.

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1865: Endgame

Southern general Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia in April and General Grant offered very liberal terms. It marked the beginning of reuniting the nation but would the politicians follow through?

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Reconstruction

With the assassination of Abraham Lincoln the reunification of the country took a particularly divisive turn. Many of the freedoms guaranteed to African Americans by the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments slowly dissipated in the wake of the era of Jim Crow.

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Legacy and Memory

We are all inheritors of the events and ramifications wrought by the Civil War. The United States underwent significant social, political, and economic changes that will continue to shape future generations.

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Credits

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From the American Civil War Center…

  • Jenny Didas
  • Mark Howell
  • Randy Klemm
  • Jimmy Price
  • Adam Scher

From the Virginia Center for Digital History…

  • Arin Bennett
  • Michael Callahan
  • Nicholas Chavez
  • Bill Covert
  • Jeanette Curtis
  • Will Davis
  • Jason Eldred
  • Elizabeth Jordan
  • Kate Melton
  • Andy Mink
  • Lynn Rainville
  • Sarah Stillwell
  • James Wilson
  • Kid Wongsrichanalai