The Battle of Blair Mountain
Ten thousand coal miners marched for their jailed coworkers, facing machine guns and gas bombs in West Virginia.
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Ten thousand coal miners marched for their jailed coworkers, facing machine guns and gas bombs in West Virginia. The 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain became the largest armed insurrection in the United States since the Civil War.
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