5/5 Great bit of history
  by J. Ryan (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Got this for my Civil War buff Dad and he loved it. Highly recommended.

1/5 Smithsonian, Civil War
  by Phillip L. Mchone (Bakersfield Ca.)
The creator of this dvd set seems to have little reguard for the truth.It is an example of taking history and retelling it from one point of view.One would think every southern familay had slaves and beat them daily.Truth is about 10% of the population owned 95% of the slaves. When one spends a lifetime studying this time period as I have (73)one realizes what a shallow work this. At best inaccurate, at worst deliberate misleading.

1/5 Poorly Produced and Over Priced
  by Mr. Derry Burgess (Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland)
This series of programmes seem to have been pulled together without a great deal of research or professionalism.
Having watched the entire series over the period of a week I again viewed Ken Burn's "Civil War" series. NO COMPARISON could be made particularly as to historical content and fact.

1/5 New England Abolition Spin on the War Between the States
  by Lee Richards (Newport, NC United States)
This DVD was a big disappointment. I thought that Smithsonian would provide an objective presentation of the entire era of the War Between the States. Not so. This product represents the radical Northern view as objective history. It is a propaganda piece!