| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | U.S. HISTORY $5,018 (Daily Double): Civil War generals issued a lot of general orders; this man's No. 9 of April 1865 sent the Army of Northern Virginia home Robert E. Lee |
| #7506, aired 2017-04-10 | THE GILDED AGE $400: From 1869 to 1881 3 consecutive U.S. presidents were Ohio-born former Civil War generals of this political party the Republicans |
| #7349, aired 2016-07-21 | HISTORICAL FICTION $1200: "Gods and Generals" by Jeff Shaara fictionalizes the events culminating in this Civil War battle Gettysburg |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | WAR OF THE GENERALS $400: Burnside,
Hooker,
Stuart the Civil War |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | WAR OF THE GENERALS $1200: Escobar on one side, Queipo de Llano on the other Spanish Civil War |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | WAR STORIES $800: "Gods and Generals" by Jeff Shaara the Civil War |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $400: As a lieutenant of engineers in the late 1830s, he supervised the engineering work for the harbor in St. Louis Robert E. Lee |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $800: Known for his scorched earth policy, this Union general worked as a banker & lawyer before the war (William Tecumseh) Sherman |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $1200: Later a historical novelist, he presided over the court martial of the Lincoln conspirators Lew Wallace |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $2,000 (Daily Double): A Texas fort is named for this confederate general who led the Texas Brigade of the army of northern Virginia (John B.) Hood |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $2000: General Winfield Scott was so old that this other noted Civil War general was named for him (Winfield Scott) Hancock |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $400: In 1863 he was made a brigadier general at age 23 (yay!); 13 years later Little Bighorn (oops) Custer |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $800: After basically setting Georgia on fire, he was the commanding general of the U.S. army from 1869 to 1884 Sherman |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $1200: In the Shenandoah Valley in 1862, this "granite-like" Virginian's 17,000 men defeated 60,000 Union troops Stonewall Jackson |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $1600: In 1862 Lincoln fired this general; adding insult to career injury, Lincoln then beat him in the 1864 pres. election McClellan |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $2000: The "eyes" of Lee's army, this cavalry man completely circled the federal army in 1862, returning with 1,200 enemy horses Jeb Stuart |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $200: Chaos & crime led John C. Fremont to declare this type of law in Missouri Aug. 30, 1861 martial law |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $400: Irvin McDowell lost the first battle of this in July 1861 & also fouled up the second battle a year later Bull Run |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $600: Jeb Stuart led this type of force at Brandy Station, the biggest battle of these forces in the war cavalry |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $800: Gaines' Mill, in which he whupped McClellan, was his first major victory despite his 9,000 casualties in one day Robert E. Lee |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1863 the White House mourned a Confederate general, Benjamin Helm; he'd married into this Kentucky clan the Todds |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $200: After routing Union troops at the first battle of this, P.G.T. Beauregard was promoted to the rank of general Bull Run |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $400: The Library of America has a boxed set of the memoirs of these 2 Union generals Grant & Sherman |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $600: Replaced by Pres. Lincoln on November 7, 1862, he challenged the president as the Democratic nominee in 1864 (George) McClellan |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $800: At Gettysburg, he said, "Up, men, and to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from Old Virginia" (George) Pickett |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $1000: Nicknamed "Fighting Joe", he replaced Ambrose Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac in 1863 (Joe) Hooker |
| #4739, aired 2005-03-24 | WAR STORIES $400: "Gods and Generals",
"Li'l Dan: The Drummer Boy" the Civil War |
| #4195, aired 2002-11-22 | SPECIFIC GENERALS $200: This Civil War general who remarked that "War is hell" made life hell for Georgia during his march to the sea William Tecumseh Sherman |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | FRATERNITIES & SORORITIES $1000: The first post-Civil War fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega started at this "institute" that trained many Civil War generals VMI (Virginia Military Institute) |
| #4167, aired 2002-10-15 | WHAT CENTURY ARE YOU LIVING IN? $200: Generals George Meade & P.G.T. Beauregard 19th century |
| #3458, aired 1999-09-22 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $200: He received his famous nickname when General Bee told his men to look at him "standing like a stone wall" Stonewall Jackson |
| #3458, aired 1999-09-22 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $400: His march to the sea began in Atlanta in November 1864 & ended in Savannah about a month later William T. Sherman |
| #3458, aired 1999-09-22 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $600: Although the charge up Cemetery Ridge in Gettysburg is named for him, it was commanded by Gen. Longstreet George Pickett |
| #3458, aired 1999-09-22 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $800: Known as "Young Napoleon" & "Little Mac", he served as governor of New Jersey after the war George McClellan |
| #3458, aired 1999-09-22 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $1000: Before his Civil War service, this "bewhiskered" general invented & manufactured a breech-loading carbine Ambrose Burnside |
| #2905, aired 1997-03-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Like his father's "The Killer Angels", Jeff Shaara's "Gods And Generals" is set during this war U.S. Civil War |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $200: He said, "The name 'Stonewall' ought to be attached wholly to the men of the brigade, and not to me" Stonewall Jackson |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $400: This president said that if Gen. McClellan didn't want to use the army, he would like to borrow it Abraham Lincoln |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $600: This Confederate commander is buried at the college he headed after the war Robert E. Lee |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $800: This Union general was disgusted that the name "Fighting Joe" stuck for the rest of his life Joseph Hooker |
| #2895, aired 1997-03-14 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $1000: He assumed command of the Army of the Potomac just 3 days before Gettysburg George Meade |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $200: Barnard E. Bee was credited with giving this fellow general the nickname "Stonewall" Jackson |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $400: On completing his "March to the Sea", he led one through the Carolinas Sherman |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $800: The Confederacy lost its 2nd-ranking general when Albert S. Johnston was killed at Shiloh in this state Tennessee |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $1000: The first general to command the Army of the Potomac, he was replaced by Ambrose Burnside in 1862 McClellan |
| #2710, aired 1996-05-17 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $2,300 (Daily Double): P.G.T. Beauregard was made a full general after his victory in the first Battle of this Bull Run |
| #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 |
| #1615, aired 1991-09-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: 2 leading Confederate generals, 1 named Joseph, the other Albert Sidney, both had this last name. Johnston |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $100: Driving the Confederates off Missionary Ridge near Chattanooga in Nov. 1863 made him a national hero Ulysses S. Grant |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $200: He was originally named after the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, the William was added later Sherman |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $300: A few days after being made head of the Union's Potomac army, Gen. Geo. Meade had to run this Penn. battle Gettysburg |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $400: In 1864 Geo. McClellan left his campaigns on the battlefield to campaign for this the presidency |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $500: John Logan, a volunteer who rose to Union general, helped establish this observance to honor war dead Memorial Day |
| #1175, aired 1989-10-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $300: 84 Union generals are buried in this cemetery in Northern Virginia Arlington National Cemetery |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: Civil War generals Lee, Grant & "Stonewall" Jackson all previously fought in this war the Mexican War |
| #739, aired 1987-11-19 | THE CIVIL WAR $200: It wasn't until the May 1864 Battle of the Wilderness that these two generals encountered each other Grant & Lee |
| #556, aired 1987-01-26 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $200: He wasn't made commander of Union forces until a little over a year before war's end Grant |
| #556, aired 1987-01-26 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $400: This rebel's famous "Charge" at Gettysburg was really made at a half-trot (George) Pickett |
| #556, aired 1987-01-26 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $600: At Fredericksburg he said, "It is well war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it" Lee |
| #556, aired 1987-01-26 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $800: Relieved of command of Union forces in 1862, this Democrat ran against Lincoln in 1864 McClellan |
| #556, aired 1987-01-26 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $1000: Killed at Chancellorsville, he was deeply religious, opposed Civil War & liked to suck lemons Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
| #279, aired 1985-10-03 | GENERALS $200: Presidents Hayes, Garfield, & Benjamin Harrison were all generals in this war the Civil War |
| #19, aired 1984-10-04 | GENERALS $500: This Civil War general wrote "Ben-Hur" Lew Wallace |
