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Which one of the following was NOT a goal of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry?
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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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  4. D.
3
Which one of the following Civil War-era federal laws led directly to the creation of West Virginia University?
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4
One of the bloodiest battles of the first year of the war (1861) occurred here.
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5
On what holiday did Confederate spy Belle Boyd kill her first soldier?
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6
A September 1862 victory here allowed the Confederates to retake the Kanawha Valley for a few weeks.
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7
In 1862, thousands of recently freed enslaved people poured into this town and lived in tents.
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8
This key member of "Stonewall" Jackson's staff later surveyed and mapped much of the southern West Virginia coalfields.
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Confederate General Albert Gallatin Jenkins's Cabell County home was known as this.
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10
Who earned the Medal of Honor by defending Harpers Ferry during Stonewall Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign?
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