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The Civil War

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1 William Tecumseh Sherman 27x
2 Robert E. Lee 24x
3 Gettysburg 20x
4 Fort Sumter 17x
5 Andersonville 17x
6 Ulysses S. Grant 16x
7 George Pickett 16x
8 Stonewall Jackson 14x
9 Antietam 14x
10 Jefferson Davis 13x
11 Vicksburg 10x
12 Richmond, Virginia 10x
13 Bull Run 10x
14 George McClellan 10x
15 David Farragut 10x
16 South Carolina 8x
17 the Merrimack 8x
18 Richmond 7x
19 the Monitor 7x
20 the Mississippi 7x
21 the Army of the Potomac 6x
22 John Wilkes Booth 6x
23 Georgia 6x
24 Texas 5x
25 Tennessee 5x
26 Shiloh 5x
27 Louisa May Alcott 5x
28 John Brown 5x
29 Clara Barton 5x
30 Atlanta 5x
31 Andrew Johnson 5x
32 Alexander Stephens 5x
33 William Quantrill 5x
34 Mary Todd Lincoln 5x
35 Burnside 5x
36 West Virginia 4x
37 the Congressional Medal of Honor 4x
38 Seward 4x
39 North Carolina 4x
40 Maryland 4x
41 Abner Doubleday 4x
42 Missouri 4x
43 Manassas 4x
44 Alabama 4x
45 the South 4x
46 General Custer 4x
47 the Gettysburg Address 3x
48 The General 3x
49 the Emancipation Proclamation 3x
50 Savannah 3x

Sample Clues

Known for his scorched earth policy, this Union general worked as a banker & lawyer before the war
William Tecumseh Sherman
It was at a victory that this CSA Gen. reportedly said, "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it"
Robert E. Lee
July 1, 1863: Good news, get to keep leg; bad news, I'm going to Cemetery Ridge for this Penn. battle
Gettysburg
First shot of the Civil War was fired there
Fort Sumter
Clara Barton traveled to this Confederate prison to help gather evidence of missing & deceased soldiers
Andersonville
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