Winner of a special award at the 1959 Sylvania Television Awards, presented on January 21, 1960.
One of the highest-profile Civil War-themed television productions broadcast around the centennial anniversary of the war. (The Centennial was officially commemorated in 1961, following years of various preparations to mark the historic occasion.)
Produced in 1958 and telecast in fall 1959 on Westinghouse television stations in Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and San Francisco. Later syndicated by Trans-Lux Television Corp. in 1960.