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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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Camp Carlile was a Union military training camp located in which city?
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This 1861 battle in Nicholas County helped the Union maintain control of the Kanawha Valley for most of the war.
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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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What surprising feat did McNeill's Rangers pull off near the end of the war in 1865?
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Confederate General Albert Gallatin Jenkins's Cabell County home was known as this.
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A Fayette County town was later named for the leader of this Confederate unit.
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Which Wayne County congressman organized a Union military unit in his region?
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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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Who was the first West Virginian to earn the Medal of Honor during the Civil War
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