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Which one of the following towns was named for a Civil War general from present West Virginia?
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What did the Willey Amendment accomplish?
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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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The Atheneum was a prison for Confederate soldiers located in this 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 Union general from Ritchie County served on the commission that tried the conspirators who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
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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 is NOT true about Confederate General John McCausland of Mason County?
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What surprising feat did McNeill's Rangers pull off near the end of the war in 1865?
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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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