Lincoln: Trial By Fire

Duration: 52

Year Published: 1973

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Dramatizes the life of President Abraham Lincoln from his election in 1860 to the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. Describes the personal, political, and strategic conflicts which developed between President Lincoln and General George McClellan, the Commander of the Army of the Potomac. Recreates several of the first major battles of the Civil War. Analyzes the relationship between the military progress of the War and the final issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves in the territory controlled by the Confederacy.

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