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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 Confederate commander experienced a series of devastating military defeats in present West Virginia early in the Civil War?
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  4. D.
3
What did the Willey Amendment accomplish?
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The first Confederate general to die in action was killed at this battle.
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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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Which one of the following was NOT a goal of the 1863 Confederate Jones-Imboden Raid?
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Which one of the following is NOT true about Confederate General John McCausland of Mason County?
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8
These Confederate guerrillas operated around the Little Kanawha River and drew most of their members from Calhoun County.
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A Fayette County town was later named for the leader of this Confederate unit.
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Which one of the following did NOT serve Western Virginia in the Confederate Congress?
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