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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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A September 1862 victory here allowed the Confederates to retake the Kanawha Valley for a few weeks.
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In 1862, thousands of recently freed enslaved people poured into this town and lived in tents.
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The first Confederate general to die in action was killed at this battle.
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This Confederate general from Monroe County accompanied Confederate President Jefferson Davis on his escape after Richmond fell.
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This Union general from Ritchie County served on the commission that tried the conspirators who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
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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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Which one of the following is NOT true about Confederate General John McCausland of Mason County?
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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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