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Civil War

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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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Which Confederate commander experienced a series of devastating military defeats in present West Virginia early in the Civil War?
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Upshur County native Sirene Bunten was this age when she started keeping a diary documenting the Civil War in her region.
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The Conefederates' 1863 Burning Springs Raid limited the Union's access to this.
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Camp Carlile was a Union military training camp located in which city?
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Seven members of the 4th West Virginia Infantry earned the Medal of Honor at this battle.
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In 1862, thousands of recently freed enslaved people poured into this town and lived in tents.
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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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Which commander was in charge of Union troops at the Battle of Philippi?
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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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