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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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  4. D.
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On what holiday did Confederate spy Belle Boyd kill her first soldier?
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  4. D.
3
Camp Carlile was a Union military training camp located in which city?
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4
This Confederate general from Monroe County accompanied Confederate President Jefferson Davis on his escape after Richmond fell.
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  4. D.
5
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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  4. D.
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This key member of "Stonewall" Jackson's staff later surveyed and mapped much of the southern West Virginia coalfields.
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  4. D.
7
During an 1862 raid, this Cabell County general became the first to raise the Confederate flag on Ohio soil.
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  4. D.
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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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  4. D.
9
Confederate General Albert Gallatin Jenkins's Cabell County home was known as this.
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Which one of the following did NOT serve Western Virginia in the Confederate Congress?
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