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Which one of the following Civil War-era federal laws led directly to the creation of West Virginia University?
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One of the bloodiest battles of the first year of the war (1861) occurred here.
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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 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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Camp Carlile was a Union military training camp located in which city?
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This was the name given to Northern Democrats who supported the Union cause but not the abolition of slavery and many other measures they considered unconstitutional.
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The grandfather of which World War II general formed the Confederate Kanawha Riflemen and led them into battle at Scary Creek.
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What is West Virginia's most visited historic site?
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Who was the first West Virginian to earn the Medal of Honor during the Civil War
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