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Battles in the U.S. Civil War - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 1,005 times
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| July 1-3, 1863: Lee gambles and loses in the turning point of the war | Battle of Gettysburg | 95%
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| July 21, 1861: Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson acquires his nickname | First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) | 89%
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| April 2, 1861: the opening shots of the war | Attack on Fort Sumter | 88%
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| September 17, 1862: George McClellan defeats Robert E. Lee in the bloodiest single day of the war, giving Lincoln the opportunity to announce the Emancipation Proclamation | Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) | 83%
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| July 4, 1863: Grant takes the last major Confederate fort on the Mississippi, which Lincoln celebrated by announcing that "The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea." | Siege of Vicksburg | 77%
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| April 6-7, 1862: when the press blamed Grant for the Union victory, Abraham Lincoln said "I can't spare this man; he fights." | Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing) | 61%
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| April 9, 1865: Grant defeats Lee, who surrenders | Battle of Appomattox Court House | 57%
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| December 13, 1862: Lee routs Ambrose Burnside, inflicting twice as many casualties on the Union forces as his troops suffered, leading Lincoln to say "If there is a worse place than hell, I am in it." | Battle of Fredericksburg | 51%
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| April 30 – May 6, 1863: the Confederates win the battle but lose Stonewall Jackson | Battle of Chancellorsville | 50%
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| March 9, 1862: the Monitor and the Merrimack do battle | Battle of Hampton Roads | 43%
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| April 2, 1865: Grant finally prevails over Lee in his siege of Richmond | Third Battle of Petersburg | 42%
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| September 19, 1863: Confederate troops defeat Gen. William Rosecrans in the second-bloodiest battle of the war | Battle of Chickamauga | 36%
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| May 31 - June 12, 1864: Lee's final victory over Grant in direct combat | Battle of Cold Harbor | 35%
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| February 11-16, 1862: Ulysses Grant captures a second Confederate fort overlooking the Tennessee River and acquires the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" | Capture of Fort Donelson | 34%
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| August 2–23, 1864: "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead." | Battle of Mobile Bay | 28%
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| July 18, 1863: not the first battle in which African-American Union soldiers played a major role, but the most famous one | Attack on Fort Wagner | 25%
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| November 25, 1863: in an attack made by mistake, Union troops under Gen. George Thomas succeed in driving Gen. Braxton Bragg's Confederate armies out of Tennessee | Assault on Missionary Ridge | 12%
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