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On what date did West Virginia enter the union?
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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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Camp Carlile was a Union military training camp located in which city?
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In 1862, thousands of recently freed enslaved people poured into this town and lived in tents.
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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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Ths one-time friend of "Stonewall" Jackson led Union forces at the Battle of Charleston in 1862.
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A Fayette County town was later named for the leader of this Confederate unit.
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Who was the first West Virginian to earn the Medal of Honor during the Civil War
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