Statistics for American Civil War A to Z

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Letter	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	Second state to secede from the Union	Alabama	100%
G	Small town in Pennsylvania where the bloodiest battle of the war was fought	Gettysburg	95%
R	Second Confederate capital	Richmond	91%
K	Border state that started the war neutral	Kentucky	86%
V	Most populous state in the CSA	Virginia	82%
I	The backbone of armies, men who fight on foot	Infantry	77%
P	Northern state that the Army of Northern Virginia marched into in 1863	Pennsylvania	77%
U	Foremost Union general towards the end of the war	Ulysses Grant	73%
C	The war began in this Southern city's harbor	Charleston	68%
N	Biggest city in the Confederacy, captured early in the war	New Orleans	68%
W	State that seceded from the above	West Virginia	68%
Y	Colloquial term for Northerners	Yankee	68%
B	Early battle in northern Virginia	Bull Run/Manassas	64%
J	Militant abolitionist executed before the war	John Brown	64%
M	Highest rank in the Union army at the start of the war	Major General	55%
S	Huge early battle in Tennessee; name ironically means "peace"	Shiloh	45%
Q	Confederate who led a unit of partisan cavalry	Quantrill	27%
T	Earthwork used in the Siege of Petersburg, among others	Trench	27%
L	Rocky hill defended by the 20th Maine during G	Little Round Top	23%
Z	Fighting and uniform style based on French North African soldiers	Zouave	23%
F	Site of a horrific massacre of African-American soldiers by Confederate cavalry	Fort Pillow	18%
O	Largest battle fought in Florida	Olustee	18%
D	Controversial Union political general, wounded at Gettysburg	Daniel Sickles	14%
H	Canvas bag used by soldiers to carry ammunition and rations	Haversack	14%
E	Model of rifle musket widely used on both sides	Enfield 1853	5%