Has anyone ever heard of this Battle?  I was just randomly surfing surfing and came across a couple of pieces about it.  I have heard of it peripherally from family in WV but have never studied it in detail before.  It is actually a pretty interesting episode in American history but just about everything I have been able to find about shows some slant or other to the telling of the narrative.The basics of what happened that I gather are that Miners wanted to organize and the Mining Companies did not want them to and had the state on their side.  The incident is widely held to be "the largest insurrection in the US after the Civil War", that may be hyperbole, I don?t know.  What strikes me is it was supposed to have been a five day battle but only 12 people died and I don't know how many were wounded.  Not much of battle given that supposedly machine guns were among the equipment of both sides.All in all, this is an interesting episode.  Even more so because it took the Great Depression ten years later for the voice of organized labor to really be heard.  Whether it?s being heard was a good thing is something else.  It seems that for all the sound and fury surrounding this event and other labor unrest in the 20's labor got short shrift before the election of FDR.Here are some links to sites about the battle (Caveat, some are obviously biased):  West Virginia's Mine Wars, The Battle of Blair Mountain, The Battle of Blair Mountain?.Revisited, Coal Firms to Strip-Mine Historic Battlefield? , and because there is so little; Wikipedia-Battle of Blair Mountain 🙁