The Civil War (1990) Cast & Crew

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Cast

• 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)

Crew

• Jay Ungar — Original Music Composer
• Ken Burns — Director of Photography
• Ric Burns — Producer
• Catherine Yang Eisele — Producer
• Mike Hill — Producer
• Stephen Ives — Producer
• Julie A. Dunfey — Producer

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