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Which Confederate commander experienced a series of devastating military defeats in present West Virginia early in the Civil War?
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People who took advantage of the Civil War to settle personal grievances or pusue personal gains were known as this.
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Camp Carlile was a Union military training camp located in which city?
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This former Virginia governor was on the losing Confederate side at the Battle of Carnifex Ferry in 1861.
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This key member of "Stonewall" Jackson's staff later surveyed and mapped much of the southern West Virginia coalfields.
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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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Which one of the following was NOT a goal of the 1863 Confederate Jones-Imboden Raid?
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Ths one-time friend of "Stonewall" Jackson led Union forces at the Battle of Charleston in 1862.
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Future feudist "Devil Anse" Hatfield belonged to this Confederate military unit during the war.
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Which Civil War battlefield is home to Pierson Hollow, which features old-growth hemlocks hundreds of years old?
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