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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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On what holiday did Confederate spy Belle Boyd kill her first soldier?
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After the war, West Virginia chose this former "Stonewall" Jackson aide as its lawyer when the state argued before the U.S. Supreme Court to keep Berkeley and Jefferson counties.
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Confederate spy Nancy Hart helped troops capture this city in 1862.
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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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Future feudist "Devil Anse" Hatfield belonged to this Confederate military unit during the war.
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Where was the only naval battle fought in West Virginia during the Civil War?
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Confederate General Albert Gallatin Jenkins's Cabell County home was known as this.
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Which Wayne County congressman organized a Union military unit in his region?
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Which one of the following did NOT serve Western Virginia in the Confederate Congress?
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