This week on The Civil War, historians and professors discuss Confederate officer Edward Porter Alexander’s memoir, “Fighting for the Confederacy,” which he wrote in the 1890s about his wartime experiences and observations.

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In 1864, the city of Atlanta fell after a four-month siege by Union troops.  Union General William Sherman would later issue an order to burn Atlanta to the ground, sparing only its churches and hospitals.
 
Historian Bob Davis talks about the attack and how the city was reborn at the Atlanta Cyclorama Museum.

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In 1850, Kentucky U.S. Senator Henry Clay brokered the Compromise of 1850 between the North and the South.
That compromise eventually collapsed and gave way to secession and the Civil War.

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George Wunderlich, director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, discusses the life-saving lessons learned during four years of bloody conflict between North and South.

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