Statistics for Battles of the Civil War

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The first shot of the Civil War was fired here	Fort Sumter	86%
Turning point of the Civil War	Gettysburg	84%
The bloodiest single day of the Civil War	Antietam	78%
Cuts the Confederacy in half; gives the Union control of the Mississippi River	Vicksburg	73%
Sherman defeats Hood at this city during his march to the sea	Atlanta	66%
At the time, was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War	Shiloh	58%
Grant meets Lee in battle for the first time	Wilderness	46%
Major frontal assaults were ordered by Burnside with massive loss of life	Fredericksburg	44%
Hooker vs. Lee; Confederate victory, but Jackson dies	Chancellorsville	43%
Lee stops Grant from entering Richmond's "back door"	Petersburg	42%
First major land battle in Virginia	First Bull Run	40%
Lee surrenders to Grant, ending the Civil War	Appomattox Court House	39%
"For Christmas, Mr. President, I present to you the city of _______"	Savannah	38%
Braxton Bragg defeated by Grant and Thomas	Chattanooga	35%
Major defeat of the Army of the Potomoc here for the second time	Second Bull Run	35%
Lee's last victory in the war; "This is not war, this is murder"	Cold Harbor	34%
George Thomas attacks and destroys Hood's Army of Tennessee	Nashville	34%
The first battle between ironclad ships was fought here	Hampton Roads	27%
A week-long battle between McClellan and Lee; costly Union defeat	Seven Days	27%
Burnside detonates a mine under Lee's lines, but gets his men slaughtered - again	Crater	23%
Grant vs. Lee, Round Two	Spotsylvania	22%
"Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!"	Mobile Bay	21%
Two forts captured by Grant in quick succession; earns the nickname "Unconditional Surrender"	Fort Henry and Fort Donelson	20%
Bragg vs. Rosecrans; ended Southern hopes of controlling Central Tennessee	Stones River	15%
Ensured Union control over Missouri	Pea Ridge	14%
The biggest battle in Missouri, and first major battle west of the Mississippi	Wilson's Creek	13%
The end of Rosecrans' military career; George Thomas anointed "The Rock of ____"	Chickamagua	11%
The "Gettysburg of the West"	Glorieta Pass	6%
Opened up the Mississippi River south of Illinois	Island Number Ten	5%
Four battles fought over the course of two weeks took the pressure off the west flank of Richmond	Shenendoah Valley	5%

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