Statistics for The American Civil War

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
U.S. President during most of the war (1861–1865)	Abraham Lincoln	99%
Confederate general who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia	Robert E. Lee	88%
Pennsylvania battle that was the bloodiest of the entire war	Battle of {Gettysburg}	86%
Final commander of the Union Army	Ulysses S. Grant	81%
Capital of the Confederacy (1861–1865)	Richmond	76%
First state to secede from the union	South Carolina	76%
Proclamation that freed the slaves in the rebelling states	{Emancipation} Proclamation	75%
Location of the war's first battle	Fort {Sumter}	67%
Nickname of Confederate general Thomas Jackson	Stonewall	67%
President of the Confederacy	Jefferson Davis	64%
Name for the era after the war (1865-1877)	Reconstruction	63%
Union general who "marched to the sea"	William Tecumseh Sherman	59%
Village where the above commander surrendered	{Appomattox} Court House	55%
Abolitionist who raided Harper's Ferry in 1859	John Brown	51%
First major land battle	First Battle of {Bull} {Run}	50%
Dueling ironclad ships at the Battle of Hampton Roads	Merrimack	48%
Bloodiest single day in American history, and the first battle on Union soil	Battle of {Antietam}	42%
Foolhardy Confederate charge at that battle	{Pickett}'s Charge	42%
Dueling ironclad ships at the Battle of Hampton Roads	Monitor	33%
"Do-nothing" commander of the Union Army who ran for President in 1864	George B. McClellan	29%