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On what date did West Virginia enter the union?
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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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What was the nickname given to "Stonewall" Jackson's cousin William Lowther Jackson, who commanded the losing Confederate forces at the Battle of Droop Mountain?
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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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This 1861 battle in Nicholas County helped the Union maintain control of the Kanawha Valley for most of the war.
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In 1862, thousands of recently freed enslaved people poured into this town and lived in tents.
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Confederate General Albert Gallatin Jenkins's Cabell County home was known as this.
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On April 25, 1863, Union forces held off four hours of assasults by Confederates at this site in current Grant County.
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Which one of the following did NOT serve Western Virginia in the Confederate Congress?
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Of West Virginia's Civil War military regiments, which one earned the most Medals of Honor
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