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William Tecumseh Sherman 27 Robert E. Lee 25 Gettysburg 20 Fort Sumter 17 Andersonville 17 George Pickett 17 Ulysses S. Grant 16 Stonewall Jackson 15 Antietam 14 Jefferson Davis 13 Bull Run 12 George McClellan 11 David Farragut 11 Vicksburg 10 Richmond, Virginia 10 South Carolina 8 the Merrimack 8

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William Tecumseh Sherman 27x $915 avg J:7 DJ:20

J $400 1993 This general's soldiers called him "Old Tecumseh"—Tecumseh was his middle name

J $800 2003 Joe Wheeler was the only Confederate leader to put a stumbling block in this man's march to the sea

J $1,000 DD 2020 On his way to Savannah, you might have heard Union troops calling him "Uncle Billy"

Robert E. Lee 25x 12.0% stumper $356 avg J:7 DJ:18

DJ $200 1994 Between 1861 & 1863, this Confederate general's hair turned from black to snow-white

DJ $600 1987 At Fredericksburg he said, "It is well war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it"

DJ $200 1993 Stephen Sears names Lincoln as the most written-about Civil War figure & this Southerner second

Fort Sumter 17x 5.9% stumper $365 avg J:9 DJ:8

J $100 1988 While it was the site of the 1st battle of the war, no one was killed during the fight

J $600 2007 After many days of bombardment, it became the first Union fort surrendered to the Confederates

DJ $100 1984 First shot of the Civil War was fired there

Andersonville 17x 5.9% stumper $918 avg DJ:17

DJ $200 2000 MacKinley Kantor's 1956 novel takes place in this notorious prison

DJ $600 1989 MacKinlay Kantor's novel about this notorious prison won the '56 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

DJ $1,000 1997 MacKinlay Kantor's books include "Arouse and Beware" & this one set in a Confederate prison

George Pickett 17x $835 avg J:5 DJ:12

DJ $200 1991 The failure of this general's charge at Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg was a turning point in the war

DJ $800 2012 Of a doomed attack at Gettysburg, this Confederate made the charge that Lee "had my division massacred"

DJ $1,200 2014 (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated map diagram on the monitor.) Although he was but 1 of 4 division commanders with Trimble, Pettigrew & Anderson in an attack at Gettysburg, the charge is named for this general

Ulysses S. Grant 16x 6.2% stumper $406 avg J:3 DJ:13

DJ $200 1994 Some folks thought his initials stood for "Union Safeguard"

DJ $800 1993 In June 1861 he was a colonel of Illinois volunteers; by September he was a brigadier general

DJ $1,500 DD 1989 Gen. Buckner, who unconditionally surrendered Ft. Donelson to this gen., later served as one of his pallbearers

Stonewall Jackson 15x 7.7% stumper $777 avg J:4 DJ:9 FJ:2

DJ $400 1985 When Lee heard this officer was dying, he said "I have lost my right arm"

J $500 1992 He was "The Sword of the Confederacy", but his more famous nickname likened him to a rock structure

DJ $2,000 2019 The subtitle to Herman Melville's poem about this man is "Mortally Wounded at Chancellorsville"

Antietam 14x 15.4% stumper $1,023 avg J:4 DJ:9 FJ:1

J $500 1993 West Woods, Dunker Church & Bloody Lane are landmarks of this extremely bloody Maryland battle

J $1,000 2012 This bloodiest 1-day battle of the Civil War stopped the first Confederate invasion of the North in 1862

FJ 2022 A Union soldiers' song said General McClellan, who let a Confederate Army escape after this battle, "was too slow to beat 'em"

Jefferson Davis 13x 23.1% stumper $492 avg J:4 DJ:9

DJ $400 1985 Son-in-law of President Zachary Taylor who was himself a president during the war

J $500 1995 The sympathies of his wife Varina were suspect because she had Northern ancestry

DJ $2,000 DD 2002 This Civil War figure was born in 1808 & named after the President of the U.S.

Bull Run 12x 8.3% stumper $592 avg J:3 DJ:9

DJ $400 1998 This July 1861 campaign in Virginia began as the Affair at Blackburn's Ford

DJ $600 1995 The Southern victory at the first battle of this, July 21, 1861, dashed Union hopes of a 90-day war

DJ $1,200 2025 Confederate General Thomas Jackson got his "Stonewall" nickname from standing firm at the first battle of this Virginia stream

George McClellan 11x 30.0% stumper $1,440 avg J:2 DJ:8 FJ:1

J $400 1997 This Union commander's men in the field called him "Little Mac"

DJ $800 1999 Known as "Young Napoleon" & "Little Mac", he served as governor of New Jersey after the war

J $1,000 2015 In November 1861 this Union man became general in chief of all armies; by March 1862, he lost the gig

David Farragut 11x 9.1% stumper $864 avg J:2 DJ:9

J $800 2003 On August 5, 1864 this Rear Admiral attacked Forts Morgan & Gaines, which guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay

DJ $1,000 1995 The Hartford was his flagship during his capture of New Orleans

DJ $800 1993 From his flagship, the Hartford, he led his fleet into Mobile Bay August 5, 1864

Vicksburg 10x 10.0% stumper $1,250 avg J:1 DJ:9

J $500 1988 The day after the July 3, 1863 Rebel defeat at Gettysburg, this Mississippi River stronghold fell

DJ $1,000 1993 The formal date of surrender for this Mississippi city was July 4, 1863

DJ $600 1985 After a 47-day siege, this "Gibraltar of the Confederacy" on the Mississippi fell

Richmond, Virginia 10x 22.2% stumper $778 avg J:5 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $400 1993 In May 1861 this city was designated the capital of the Confederacy

J $600 2015 In mid-1861 Montgomery, Alabama was out & this city was in as capital of the Confederacy

J $1,000 2016 The Battle of Petersburg

the Merrimack 8x $300 avg DJ:8

DJ $200 1993 On May 11, 1862, this Confederate ironclad was blown up by Confederate States of America troops when the North approached Richmond

DJ $400 2021 Known as the C.S.S. Virginia when it fought the Monitor, the South's first ironclad was built from the captured U.S.S. this

DJ $400 1994 On March 8, 1862 this Confederate ship destroyed 2 Union ships at Hampton Roads

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Richmond 7x $614 avg J:1 DJ:6

J $100 1994 Confederate soldiers set fire to much of this Virginia capital before abandoning it in early April 1865

DJ $600 1995 The Battle of the Wilderness was the first stage of a campaign to capture this Confederate capital

DJ $1,600 2018 An 1865photoshows the extent of destruction in this capital

the Mississippi 7x $471 avg J:1 DJ:6

J $100 1988 Once the Union controlled this river, Lincoln said, "The father of waters again goes unvexed to the sea"

DJ $600 1993 As a new way to take Vicksburg, Grant tried to change the course of this major river--it didn't work

DJ $1,000 1985 The deep south state Jefferson Davis represented in the Senate

Burnside 7x 28.6% stumper $914 avg DJ:7

DJ $200 1987 This Union general's facial growth gave us the word "sideburns"

DJ $600 1985 Union General, his name was synonymous with "sideburns"

DJ $1,000 1999 Before his Civil War service, this "bewhiskered" general invented & manufactured a breech-loading carbine

the Army of the Potomac 6x $817 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $100 1998 The eastern Union army came to be called the army of this river

J $800 2005 McClellan, Burnside, Hooker & Meade successively headed this army

DJ $1,000 1991 In the fall of 1862, Burnside was given command of this Union Army

Shiloh 6x 20.0% stumper $1,600 avg DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $1,000 1995 The Battle of Pittsburg Landing is also called this, after a church on the battlefield

FJ 1988 1st major battle with heavy casualties was at this Tennessee site named for a church on the battlefield

DJ $1,000 1993 This battle named for a Tennessee church was the first in the Western Hemisphere to engage 100,000 men

Georgia 6x 33.3% stumper $617 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1985 Sherman's March to the Sea was across this state

DJ $800 1999 Ezra Church & Chickamauga were among the battles fought in this state

DJ $1,500 DD 1987 (Here comes the music.)Bring the good old bugle, boys, we'll sing another song Sing it with a spirit that will start the world along Sing it as we used to sing it, 50,000 strong...Civil War event depicted in this song:...Hurrah! Hurrah! we bring the ...

Andrew Johnson 6x $400 avg DJ:4 FJ:2

DJ $400 1993 In March 1862 he was appointed military governor of Tennessee

DJ $600 1987 This vice president was intoxicated when he gave his inaugural speech in 1865

FJ 2002 This Tennessean was the only U.S. Senator from a seceded state to remain loyal to the Union

Alexander Stephens 6x 33.3% stumper $1,217 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $500 1997 On February 3, 1865 Lincoln met with this Confederate vice president at Hampton Roads, Virginia

DJ $1,000 1992 After the war, this Confederate vice president wrote a book about the war & became Georgia's governor

DJ $800 1996 This Confederate vice president was called "Little Ellick" because of his 100-pound weight

William Quantrill 6x 66.7% stumper $1,133 avg DJ:6

DJ $600 1991 This guerrilla fighter raided the farms & towns of those in Kansas & Missouri who were loyal to the Union

DJ $1,600 2015 In August 1863 he & his guerrilla band irregularly attached to the Confederate army sacked Lawrence, Kansas

DJ $800 2001 Kate Clarke, mistress of this outlaw guerrilla leader, opened a brothel in St. Louis with the money he left her

Texas 5x $1,540 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $100 1991 This Confederate state was the largest in area, & undoubtedly proud of it

J $1,000 DD 2003 It was the largest as well as the westernmost Confederate state

J $300 1997 One objective of the Red River Campaign was the invasion of this Lone Star State

Tennessee 5x 20.0% stumper $860 avg DJ:5

DJ $200 1994 Battles in this state included those at Fort Henry, Franklin & Murfreesboro

DJ $500 DD 1992 The last state to secede from the Union, it bordered more Confederate states than any other

DJ $2,000 2005 The first major victories for the Union were at Fort Donelson & Fort Henry in this state

John Brown 5x $500 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2006 On May 24, 1856 this abolitionist led a raid that killed 5 pro-slavery men in Pottawatomie

DJ $600 1986 In song, he "died that the slaves might be free"

DJ $1,200 2003 The Harpers Ferry National Historical Park includes a museum named for this Civil War figure

Clara Barton 5x $520 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $400 2001 The only angel Civil War Buffy met was this "Angel of the Battlefield" with whom she tended the wounded

DJ $600 1993 At the end of the war, Lincoln assigned this battlefield nurse the task of identifying missing soldiers

DJ $400 1994 When the war broke out, she was a patent office clerk; she later became "The Angel of the Battlefield"

West Virginia 5x $760 avg DJ:5

DJ $200 1991 It broke away from Virginia over the issue of secession in 1861 & became the 35th state in 1863

DJ $600 1985 Our 35th state, it was only new state directly resulting from the Civil War

DJ $1,200 2005 What is now this state was briefly called Kanawha after it refused to secede from the Union

the Congressional Medal of Honor 5x $360 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $400 2003 George Custer's brother Thomas was the only person to receive 2 of these medals during the war

J $200 2020 About 1,500 Union soldiers received this highest award for valor, instituted by Congress during the Civil War

DJ $400 2002 William H. Carney, of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, was the first black soldier honored with this medal

Mary Todd Lincoln 5x $360 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 1994 Unamused by his famous wit, this president's foes nicknamed him "The Jester"

DJ $600 1988 The widow of Confederate gen. D.H. Helm was offered amnesty because she was this woman's half-sister

DJ $200 1997 First lady who was the subject of Irving Stone's "Love Is Eternal"

Manassas 5x 40.0% stumper $1,160 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2011 Although the war began in April 1861, no major battles were fought until this one in Virginia 3 months later

DJ $800 1988 Fought just 30 miles west of Washington, D.C., it was the war's 1st major battle

J $1,000 2003 The Battles of Bull Run were known by this name in the Confederacy

Seward 4x $850 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1991 If Lewis Payne had killed this Secretary of State April 14, 1865, we might have only 49 states

DJ $1,000 1993 This Secretary of State was recovering from a carriage accident when he was stabbed on April 14, 1865

DJ $800 1985 When Lincoln was assassinated, this Secretary of State was separately attacked but survived

North Carolina 4x 25.0% stumper $1,050 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1994 Braxton Bragg, one of the Confederacy's 8 full generals, has a fort named for him in this state

DJ $1,000 1987 In 1862 the Union seized Roanoke Island, New Bern, & Ft. Macon, gaining control of this state's coast

DJ $1,000 1986 1/5 of entire Confederate Army was from this Upper South state which was next to last to secede

Maryland 4x $600 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $400 1993 In early September 1862 Robert E. Lee crossed the Potomac & invaded this state

J $600 2016 The Battle of Antietam

FJ 2008 Though 1863's Emancipation Proclamation applied only to the Confederacy, this Union state, one of the original 13, ended slavery November 1, 1864

Louisa May Alcott 4x 50.0% stumper $1,300 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1998 During the war this "Little Women" author served as a nurse for the Union

DJ $800 1987 "Little woman" whose private letters about nursing Union soldiers were published in 1863

DJ $4,000 DD 2022 In addition to fiction portraying herself & her sisters, she penned "Hospital Sketches" from her time as a Civil War nurse

Abner Doubleday 4x 25.0% stumper $775 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 1989 He commanded at 2nd Bull Run & is said to have devised a sport that later used a bullpen

DJ $600 1991 This alleged inventor of baseball led troops that fired the first shots defending Fort Sumter

DJ $1,600 2012 This West Pointer threw out the first pitch, or rather, fired the first Union shot, in defense of Fort Sumter

The General 4x 100.0% stumper $900 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 2012 According to the prisoner exchange agreement of July 1862, 60 privates could be exchanged for one of these officers

DJ $600 1992 6 Union soldiers who helped capture this Rebel locomotive became the 1st Medal of Honor winners in 1863

DJ $2,000 2002 (Cheryl of the Clue Crew gives the choo-choo clue.) On April 12, 1862, Union soldiers went on a rampage after stealing this Confederate locomotive

the Emancipation Proclamation 4x $300 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1986 The border states were exempt from this 1863 declaration freeing the slaves

J $500 1986 Surprisingly, this historic document allowed slavery to continue in states within the Union

DJ $400 1991 Following the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued this edict January 1, 1863

J.E.B. Stuart 4x 25.0% stumper $900 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 1992 This cavalry officer's West Point classmates teasingly nicknamed him "Beauty" Stuart

DJ $600 1999 This Confederate general with the given names James Ewell Brown was famous for his rides "around McClellan"

DJ $2,000 2012 This cavalryman twice led his troops in a ride around McClellan, boosting southern morale

(George Armstrong) Custer 4x $933 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $800 2012 In 1865 his pursuit hastened Lee's surrender; in 1866 he was sent west to deal with the Indians & passed into history

DJ $1,000 1997 This blond soldier lost control of his horse during the End of the War Parade, May 23, 1865

FJ 2025 12 years before his death out West, he led a charge at the Battle of Trevilian station in 1864

Worth Knowing (27)

the Gettysburg Address 3 Hampton Roads 3 13 3 the Battle of Shiloh 3 Winfield Scott 2 Vermont 2 Thomas 2 the Hunley 2 the Appalachians 2 North and South 2 New York 2 Napoleon III 2 McCormick 2 Kansas 2 Ghost 2 Franco 2 Copperhead 2 Belle Boyd 2 Baseball 2 Appomattox Court House 2 "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" 2 Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson 2 First Battle of Bull Run 2 James Buchanan 2 horse 2 Giuseppe Garibaldi 2 George Meade 2

Other

38 answers | 109 clues

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South Carolina 8x 14.3% stumper $1,114 avg J:2 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $200 2010 Dec. 20, 1860:Privy to a special convention in this state. Looks like they're gonna be the first to secede

DJ $600 1994 At 1:15 P.M. Dec. 20, 1860 this state voted to secede, the first state to do so

DJ $5,000 DD 1995 Buttons stamped with a palmetto tree design were worn on the uniforms of this state's troops

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the Monitor 7x $314 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $200 1996 This Union ironclad was launched at Greenpoint, New York January 30, 1862

DJ $800 2002 The USS Cairo was the first iron warship; it was completed before this Merrimack opponent

DJ $200 1994 On March 9, 1862, this ship had turret troubles--either it was hard to turn or it wouldn't stop turning

John Wilkes Booth 6x 16.7% stumper $550 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $100 1997 The year before assassinating Lincoln, this actor organized an attempt to abduct the president

DJ $800 2016 "Manhunt" by James Swanson is an account of the multi-day chase to find this killer

DJ $1,500 DD 2001 Early in the morning of April 15, 1865, David Herold & this man showed up at the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd

Atlanta 5x $480 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $100 1985 1864 burning of this city is depicted in "Gone with the Wind"

DJ $1,200 2008 Sherman's campaign for this city took 3 months in 1864

J $300 1995 On Sept, 2, 1864 Mayor James M. Calhoun surrendered this Georgia city to Union troops

Missouri 4x 33.3% stumper $733 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $400 2017 The first leg of the Pony Express included a ferry ride for horse & rider across this river to Elwood, Kansas

J $800 2016 The Battle of Independence

DJ $1,000 1993 The border states ran from Maryland in the east to this state on the Mississippi

Alabama 4x 75.0% stumper $375 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2016 The Battle of Mobile Bay

J $500 1991 Union troops captured this city, the cradle of the Confederacy, in April 1865

J $400 1995 This state, home of the 1st capital of the Confederacy, was the 4th to secede from the Union

the South 4x $175 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 1985 First side to resort to drafting soldiers

J $100 1986 Some on this side called the conflict "Our 2nd War of Independence"

J $200 1985 Side supported by 5 civilized Indian tribes of Oklahoma

Worth Knowing (31)

Savannah 3 New York City 3 the North 3 the Monitor & the Merrimack 3 Joseph Hooker 3 Frederick Douglass 3 Abraham Lincoln 3 (Edwin) Stanton 3 unconditional surrender 3 William T. Sherman 2 Washington, D.C. 2 Thomas Nast 2 The Red Badge Of Courage 2 the Potomac 2 slavery 2 New Orleans 2 Mobile Bay 2 horses 2 hardtack 2 Guernica 2 George Washington 2 cotton 2 California 2 Benjamin Harrison 2 a leg 2 Salmon P. Chase 2 Allan Pinkerton 2 Phil Sheridan 2 Mobile 2 Kentucky 2 General (William Tecumsah) Sherman 2

Revolutionary Era

3 answers | 24 clues

Must-Know (1)

Gettysburg 20x 5.0% stumper $500 avg J:8 DJ:12

J $100 1995 Paul Revere's grandson Colonel Paul Joseph Revere was mortally wounded at this Penn. battle

J $600 2003 In July 1863 Union General George Meade defeated Robert E. Lee at this battle

DJ $1,000 1996 Vicksburg surrendered July 4, 1863, 1 day after the South lost this major battle

Worth Knowing (2)

the Battle of Gettysburg 2 Harriet Tubman 2

Colonial / Exploration

3 answers | 7 clues

Worth Knowing (3)

Mexico 3 Connecticut 2 John C. Fremont 2

Ancient

1 answers | 3 clues

Worth Knowing (1)

P.G.T. Beauregard 3

Medieval

1 answers | 2 clues

Worth Knowing (1)

Ireland 2

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