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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 Cabell County native served in the U.S. and Confederate congresses and then as a Confederate brigadier general?
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Which one of the following natural resources—found in many West Virginia caves—was used as a key ingredient in manufacturing gunpowder during the Civil War?
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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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Which one of the following was NOT an objective of Union General William Averell's Raid in 1863?
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In which county was the Union's Camp Piatt located?
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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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At the 1862 Battle of Fayetteville, this Greenbrier County native set a precedent for modern warfare by firing his artillery at targets hs could not directly see.
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Future feudist "Devil Anse" Hatfield belonged to this Confederate military unit during the war.
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In which Eastern Panhandle city did Union troops win a victory after Confederates had burned Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1864?
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