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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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Which one of the following Civil War-era federal laws led directly to the creation of West Virginia University?
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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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Laura, the sister of this Civil War general, supposedly never spoke to her brother again after the Civil War began.
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In which county was the Union's Camp Piatt located?
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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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This was the name given to Northern Democrats who supported the Union cause but not the abolition of slavery and many other measures they considered unconstitutional.
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Future feudist "Devil Anse" Hatfield belonged to this Confederate military unit during the war.
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In which Eastern Panhandle city did Union troops win a victory after Confederates had burned Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1864?
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Who was the first West Virginian to earn the Medal of Honor during the Civil War
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