Lincoln: Trial by Fire (1974)

Lincoln: Trial by Fire

1974

History

Synopsis

Cliff Robertson narrates this dramatization focuses on the little-known life-and-death struggle of power between President Lincoln and his general in command of the Army of the Potomac, George McClellan, and the events leading to the Emancipation Proclamation.

Credits

Director

Ed Spiegel

Cast

Cliff Robertson as Narrator(voice)

Doug Roberts as Corporal Mitchell

John Anderson as President Lincoln

Max Wright as Horace Greeley

Richard Sanders as Minister Adams

Robert Prosky as Secretary of War Stanton

Crew

Theodore Strauss (Writer)