The Civil War

David McCullough

as Narrator (voice)

Sam Waterston

as Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Julie Harris

as Mary Chestnut (voice)

Jason Robards

as Ulysses S. Grant (voice)

Morgan Freeman

as Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)

Paul Roebling

as Joshua Chamberlain (voice)

Garrison Keillor

as Walt Whitman (voice)

George Black

as Robert E. Lee (voice)

Arthur Miller

as William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)

Christopher Murney

as Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice)

Charles McDowell

as Samuel R. Watkins (voice)

Horton Foote

as Jefferson Davis (voice)

George Plimpton

as George Templeton Strong (voice)

Philip Bosco

as Horace Greeley (voice)

Terry Courier

as George B. McClellan (voice)

Jody Powell

as Stonewall Jackson / Various (voice)

Studs Terkel

as Benjamin Butler / Various

Hoyt Axton

as Various (voice)

John Hartford

as Various (voice)

Colleen Dewhurst

as Various (voice)

Shelby Foote

as Various (voice)

Ronnie Gilbert

as Various (voice)

Jeremy Irons

as Various (voice)

Gene Jones

as Various (voice)

Derek Jacobi

as William Russell / Various (voice)

Kurt Vonnegut

as Various (voice)

Laurence Fishburne

as Sgt. Louis Douglas / Samuel Jess / Various (voice)

Pamela Reed

as Various (voice)

M. Emmet Walsh

as Various (voice)

Barbara Fields

as Various (voice)