| #8260, aired 2020-10-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In the 1850s this state was "Bleeding" as pro- & anti-slavery forces met up in a preview of the Civil War Kansas |
| #7999, aired 2019-05-23 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1861 this Secretary of State suggested the U.S. provoke a foreign war to distract from civil discord at home (William) Seward |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | 19th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, NM.) His eventful career included preventing the capture of Washington, D.C. as a Civil War general & a stint living here as governor of New Mexico, during which he found time to write "Ben-Hur" Lew Wallace |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA $1200: On Dec. 20, 1860 it became the first state to leave the Union; a few months later, the Civil War would begin there South Carolina |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | THE RIVER OF HISTORY $2000: Many Civil War battles had 1 name from a river & 1 from a settlement, as in Stones River/Murfreesboro in this state Tennessee |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | A STATE OF CIVIL WAR $400: This Northern state had draft riots in July 1863 even as its industrial output exceeded that of the entire South New York |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | A STATE OF CIVIL WAR $800: On September 17, 1862 Gen. Robert E. Lee's Northern march was halted in this slave-holding Union state Maryland |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | A STATE OF CIVIL WAR $1200: What is now this state was briefly called Kanawha after it refused to secede from the Union West Virginia |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | A STATE OF CIVIL WAR $1600: The USS Monitor sank off the shore of this state that supplied the most troops to the Confederate Army North Carolina |
| #4856, aired 2005-10-24 | A STATE OF CIVIL WAR $2000: The first major victories for the Union were at Fort Donelson & Fort Henry in this state Tennessee |
| #4138, aired 2002-09-04 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $200: In the 1790s, Robert Carter, like Thomas Jefferson a planter in this state, freed hundreds of his own slaves Virginia |
| #2842, aired 1996-12-31 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $200: Elihu Washburne, who sponsored a bill making this man a Civil War general, became his secretary of state Ulysses S. Grant |
| #2532, aired 1995-09-12 | THE CIVIL WAR $5,000 (Daily Double): Buttons stamped with a palmetto tree design were worn on the uniforms of this state's troops South Carolina |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | CIVIL WARS $1000: In a devastating 1960s civil war, this country recaptured the breakaway state of Biafra Nigeria |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $600: Braxton Bragg, one of the Confederacy's 8 full generals, has a fort named for him in this state North Carolina |
| #2286, aired 1994-07-11 | HODGEPODGE $400: One of Alabama's nicknames, the "Yellowhammer State", refers to a color on uniforms worn during this war Civil War |
| #1965, aired 1993-03-05 | THE CIVIL WAR $1000: This Secretary of State was recovering from a carriage accident when he was stabbed on April 14, 1865 Seward |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: It broke away from Virginia over the issue of secession in 1861 & became the 35th state in 1863 West Virginia |
| #1237, aired 1990-01-09 | NEVADA $800: Though it had only about 20% of the required population, Nevada was made a state during this war Civil War |
| #985, aired 1988-12-09 | THE CIVIL WAR $1000: As secretary of state at the time, he signed the Emancipation Proclamation as a witness Seward |
| #515, aired 1986-11-28 | THE CIVIL WAR $400 (Daily Double): When capital of Confederacy moved to Virginia, representatives of this state had best reason to complain Alabama |
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