September 1, 1921

The Redneck Army had looted the Company Store, got a Gatling gun, and assaulted a spot called Craddock Fork. Fighting went on for three hours as the Defenders were using their machine gun. When the machine gun jammed, the miners made a huge surge forward and broke the defensive line, only to be pushed back by a second machine gun.

Chafin had chartered three private biplanes and had them equipped with homemade bombs, pipe bombs (loaded with nuts and bolts), and tear gas. This effort failed to inflict any casualties even though they were dropped over two of the Redneck Army’s strongholds.

A squadron of US Army reconnaissance planes began patrolling the skies on this day and the next day. And troops from the US Army and Army National Guard led by William Eubanks, a McDowell County native, arrived and started unloading equipment.

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