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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Alaska-Now-PNW on 2024-08-24 04:27:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that, in the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War, a group of West Virginia coal miners fought local and federal authorities at the Battle of Blair mountain in 1921 and were even bombed with gas and gunpowder.