The Jefferson Tree

Can you imagine this happening today? 3000 armed workers marching against union rule.

In late August and September of 1921, the largest armed rebellion in the U.S. since the Civil War was mounted in the coalfields of southern West Virginia. Union coal miners gathered, in numbers estimated anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 strong, outside of Charleston. It is perhaps misleading to call them an army, for they had few resources and lacked formal military

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