Quick And Dirty History

The Second Battle of Bull Run kicks off with a demoted Union general, and a chance for the North to redeem themselves...spoiler alert, they don't.

The Confiscation Act gets bigger and badder...and George McClellan is still....mehhh.

Robert E. Lee has a breakfast of champions...Hard Tack...and then comes out swinging in the Seven Days Battles of the Civil War.

In war, nobody wins...one side just loses more slowly.  The bloodiest battle of not just the Civil War, but any American military engagement up to that point takes place in Pittsburgh Landing, Tennessee.  It's the Battle of Shiloh.

The Navies of the Civil War go heavy metal!

Abraham Lincoln fills his cabinet with people that disagreed with him...because the Union is bigger than just one dude.

Who do you want to have a beer with?  Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis...The time there were two Commanders in Chief within our borders during the Civil War...

The beginning of 1862 is action packed, the Union strikes back!

In the North corner...it's George McClellan, and in the South, Robert E. Lee...Ready, fight!

Harriet Tubman and the abolitionist movement is full steam ahead with the Underground Railroad in the fight against slavery.  As the Civil War chugs along, the Union fires a legal shot at the Confederacy with the Confiscation Act.

The first real confrontation of the American Civil War kicks off near the town of Manassas, and only a stone's throw from Washington D.C.  It's the battle of Bull Run.

Arlington Cemetery will become our nation's most hallowed ground...but first, it will be the most strategic ground to protect Washington D.C.  And, as an unintended FU to the future general of the confederacy, it's on Robert E. Lee's family land.

The Civil War revolutionized how battles were fought.  From guns and bullets to the telegraph and railroads...America is the leader in technology, but these weapons of war prove especially devastating when Americans use them against each other.

As Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th President of America...states have already begun to secede and join the confederacy.  The Civil War has begun.

Abraham Lincoln is the Big Buck of This Lick!  He and the new Republican Party set out to oppose slavery, just as the Supreme Court doubles down with one of their worst decisions...the Dred Scott case.

Tensions are mounting between political parties and the northern and southern states.  The powder keg is about to explode.

The feminine frontier has begun!  Women want their voices heard at the ballot box...and they're gonna get it!

There's gold in them there hills!  Gold is struck in California!  We're gonna get rich...or, at least a few dudes are.

California roars towards independence!  It's the Bear Flag Revolt.

Chuck Norris makes Texas a state, then he fights a war...on his own.