This is raw footage of an interview that Ken Burns conducted with C. Vann Woodward, a professor and historian of the American South post-Civil War. The interview takes place in New Haven, CT on July 9, 1986. In the interview, Woodward discusses the war through the political and military viewpoint. He explains that it is hard to establish a certain cause of the Civil War, and that it was not a war that was planned or expected. He also emphasizes his sympathy for the struggles of the common soldier throughout the war while also expressing interest in the thought processes of the major generals. At the end of the interview, he reads several passages.
