Statistics for American Civil War A-Z

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Confederate commander in Virginia	Robert E. Lee	90%
Killed at Chancellorsville, "Stonewall"	Thomas Jackson	90%
Main US general, captured Richmond	Ulysses S. Grant	90%
Slave-freeing document	Emancipation Proclamation	89%
Nickname for Union soldiers	Yankees	85%
Second Confederate capital	Richmond	84%
Border state, Battle of Perryville	Kentucky	82%
US general who used "scorched earth" tactics	William T. Sherman	77%
Bloodiest one-day battle of the war	Antietam	76%
Most of the generals were taught at this academy	West Point	76%
Unofficial Southern anthem	Dixie	73%
Harriet Beecher Stowe's book	Uncle Tom's Cabin	70%
First battle of the war	Fort Sumter	69%
Had the charge at Gettysburg named after him	George Pickett	64%
Draft riots in the North happened here	New York City	61%
Besieged Mississippi city	Vicksburg	60%
The Monitor and Merrimack	Ironclad	56%
Kind of static warfare used at Petersburg	Trench warfare	54%
Tennessee crossroads city	Chattanooga	42%
A cylindrical bullet with grooves	Minie Ball	23%
Confederate Guerrilla raider of Kansas towns	William Quantrill	17%
Soldiers wearing the French, flamboyant uniforms	Zouaves	17%
Surly, unlikeable Confederate general in the West	Braxton Bragg	16%
Grant's series of battles into Virginia, 1864	Overland Campaign	15%
Bled his army dry at Atlanta	John Bell Hood	14%