Full cast of The Civil War

David McCullough

Narrator (voice)

9 episodes

Sam Waterston

Abraham Lincoln (voice)

9 episodes

Julie Harris

Mary Chestnut (voice)

9 episodes

Jason Robards

Ulysses S. Grant (voice)

9 episodes

Morgan Freeman

Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)

9 episodes

Paul Roebling

Joshua Chamberlain (voice)

9 episodes

Garrison Keillor

Walt Whitman (voice)

9 episodes

George Black

Robert E. Lee (voice)

9 episodes

Arthur Miller

William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)

9 episodes

Christopher Murney

Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice)

9 episodes

Charles McDowell

Samuel R. Watkins (voice)

9 episodes

Horton Foote

Jefferson Davis (voice)

9 episodes

George Plimpton

George Templeton Strong (voice)

9 episodes

Philip Bosco

Horace Greeley (voice)

9 episodes

Terry Courier

George B. McClellan (voice)

9 episodes

Jody Powell

Stonewall Jackson / Various (voice)

9 episodes

Studs Terkel

Benjamin Butler / Various

9 episodes

Hoyt Axton

Various (voice)

9 episodes

John Hartford

Various (voice)

9 episodes

Colleen Dewhurst

Various (voice)

9 episodes

Shelby Foote

Various (voice)

9 episodes

Ronnie Gilbert

Various (voice)

9 episodes

Jeremy Irons

Various (voice)

9 episodes

Gene Jones

Various (voice)

9 episodes

Derek Jacobi

William Russell / Various (voice)

9 episodes

Kurt Vonnegut

Various (voice)

9 episodes

Laurence Fishburne

Sgt. Louis Douglas / Samuel Jess / Various (voice)

9 episodes

Pamela Reed

Various (voice)

9 episodes

M. Emmet Walsh

Various (voice)

9 episodes

Barbara Fields

Various (voice)

9 episodes

Abraham Lincoln

Self (archive footage)

2 episodes

Robert E. Lee

Self (archive footage)

2 episodes

Frederick Douglass

Self (archive footage)

2 episodes