Famous American Civil War Generals - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
General of the Army from 1864-1869. He went on to become President of the United States.	Ulysses S. Grant	98%
Confederate *General of the Army from 1861-1865 and Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia from 1862-1865. Most famous confederate general.	Robert E. Lee	85%
Commander of the Stonewall Brigade and 2nd Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was shot by his own men at night in Chancellorsville while riding back to his own camp.	Thomas Jackson	79%
Commander of the Army of the Tennessee from 1863-1864. Infamous for his March to Sea through Georgia; he was also Grant’s ‘right hand man.’	William T. Sherman	79%
Commander of the Army of the Potomac from 1862-1863. Had famous sideburns and was McClennan’s replacement for the General of the Army position.	Ambrose E. Burnside	69%
Commander of the Army of the Potomac from 1863 - 1865. He also won the battle of Gettysburg.	George G. Meade	60%
Most well-known Confederate Cavalry Commander and was a very early member of the Klu Klux Klan.	Nathan B. Forrest	54%
Commander of the Army of the Potomac from Jan 26 - June 28 1863. He was hit by a cannonball at the Battle of Chancellorsville.	Joseph Hooker	51%
Commander of the Army of Tennessee from 1862- 1863. Won the battle of Chickamauga and had a fort named after him that was unpopularly renamed to Fort Liberty in 2023.	Braxton Bragg	45%
Commander of the 1st Corps, Army of Northern in 1862 Virginia and a few of his own brigades. Was one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted generals, apart from Jackson.	James Longstreet	42%
Commanded the Army of Mississippi in 1862 and the Army of Central Kentucky from 1861-1862. Overall Confederate Commander at the battle of Shiloh.	Albert Sidney Johnston	35%
Commander of the Army of the Cumberland from 1862-1863. Union General at Chickamauga and Chattanooga.	William Rosecrans	27%
General of the Army from 1861-1862. Famously cautious general who ran against Lincoln in the 1864 Election.	George B. McClellan	22%
Commander of the 1st Kentucky Cavalry and the later Adams’s Brigade. He was killed trying to capture the colours of the 65th Illinois Infantry at the Battle of Franklin.	John Adams	14%

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