Federal Troops Set Up Camp

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Title
Federal Troops Set Up Camp
Creator
Huntington Advertiser
Date
September 11, 1921
Description
Top: Federal troops from Fort Thomas setting up their "pup" tents in the yards of Union miners' homes at Sharples. Bottom: A guard on duty at Jeffrey, another of the mining towns. The men in the background have just been disarmed. Jeffrey was used as a concentration point for the union miners. Seven hundred armed men were in the town when troops arrived.
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