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Which one of the following was NOT a goal of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry?
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2
Which one of the following towns was named for a Civil War general from present West Virginia?
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3
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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4
The Conefederates' 1863 Burning Springs Raid limited the Union's access to this.
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5
A September 1862 victory here allowed the Confederates to retake the Kanawha Valley for a few weeks.
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6
In 1862, thousands of recently freed enslaved people poured into this town and lived in tents.
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7
After the war, West Virginia chose this former "Stonewall" Jackson aide as its lawyer when the state argued before the U.S. Supreme Court to keep Berkeley and Jefferson counties.
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8
This Union general from Ritchie County served on the commission that tried the conspirators who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
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9
In which Eastern Panhandle city did Union troops win a victory after Confederates had burned Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1864?
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10
Who earned the Medal of Honor by defending Harpers Ferry during Stonewall Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign?
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