Historian Edward Bonekemper examines his selections of the best Union and Confederate generals of the Civil War—looking at their strategies, tactics, audacity, and impacts on the war's outcome and discusses the campaigns and battles of each.

Guided by Civil War historian Ed Bearss, participants on this tour stop first at the Petersburg National Battlefield visitors center. Bearss then leads a walk of the Battery 5 area, the strongest fortification on the original Confederate line.

Led by Civil War historian Ed Bearss, this tour visits Richmond’s Monument Avenue and Hollywood Cemetery, and ventures out to sites along the James River just east of the city where a number of significant Civil War actions took place in 1862 and 1864.