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Produced with the assist of Forrest Gump author Winston Groom, and originally screened on cable's History Channel, this biographical documentary profiles the two most prominent figures in the U.S. Civil War Era after Abe Lincoln: confederacy leader: General Robert E. Lee (1807-70) and union leader General Ulysses S. Grant (1882-85). The program examines historical events on an immediate scale - looking at how each of the men, wielding godlike authority, made decisive decisions in individual battle - and a long-term one, with examinations of how those choices determined the course of history.