
#22 Whose America?, ep. 1: Rough Extraction
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The Battle of Blair Mountain
Corban writes that the miners were prepared to fight, and they had to be. They would sustain a week long battle against chaffin's army of over two thousand men who were equipped with machine guns and bombing planes. Approximately two thousand army veterans were the field commanders, and they instructed the other miners in military tactics. The marchers were fed three meals a day in mess halls and commissaries. In addition to robbing the local company stores for food, the marchers bought every loaf of bread,. one thousand, 200 dozen in charleston and transported the loaves to their camp sites. After watching several hundred ex service men drill the miners until they marched in something like military order
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