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The largest surrender of U.S. forces during the Civil War occurred in what present West Virginia town?
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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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One of the bloodiest battles of the first year of the war (1861) occurred here.
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The Conefederates' 1863 Burning Springs Raid limited the Union's access to this.
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People who took advantage of the Civil War to settle personal grievances or pusue personal gains were known as this.
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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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Which one of the following was NOT a goal of the 1863 Confederate Jones-Imboden Raid?
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Confederate General Albert Gallatin Jenkins's Cabell County home was known as this.
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Which one of the following did NOT serve Western Virginia in the Confederate Congress?
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