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Which one of the following was NOT a goal of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry?
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2
Laura, the sister of this Civil War general, supposedly never spoke to her brother again after the Civil War began.
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3
Which one of the following was NOT an objective of Union General William Averell's Raid in 1863?
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4
The Conefederates' 1863 Burning Springs Raid limited the Union's access to this.
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This 1861 battle in Nicholas County helped the Union maintain control of the Kanawha Valley for most of the war.
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Confederate spy Nancy Hart helped troops capture this city in 1862.
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7
At the 1862 Battle of Fayetteville, this Greenbrier County native set a precedent for modern warfare by firing his artillery at targets hs could not directly see.
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Which commander was in charge of Union troops at the Battle of Philippi?
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9
What surprising feat did McNeill's Rangers pull off near the end of the war in 1865?
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10
Confederate General Albert Gallatin Jenkins's Cabell County home was known as this.
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