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The largest surrender of U.S. forces during the Civil War occurred in what present West Virginia town?
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Which Cabell County native served in the U.S. and Confederate congresses and then as a Confederate brigadier general?
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3
One of the bloodiest battles of the first year of the war (1861) occurred here.
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4
On what holiday did Confederate spy Belle Boyd kill her first soldier?
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5
Upshur County native Sirene Bunten was this age when she started keeping a diary documenting the Civil War in her region.
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6
In 1862, thousands of recently freed enslaved people poured into this town and lived in tents.
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Confederate spy Nancy Hart helped troops capture this city in 1862.
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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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During an 1862 raid, this Cabell County general became the first to raise the Confederate flag on Ohio soil.
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10
Which one of the following was NOT a goal of the 1863 Confederate Jones-Imboden Raid?
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