The Two Sides to the Story

In Story One: One of the Baldwin-Felts agents moved to arrest the Sheriff and he shot and killed Mayor Testerman when he stepped in to intervene on behalf of Hatfield.

In Story Two: Hatfield initiated the shootout by either signaling a prepared ambush or shooting the agent himself.

It is unclear as to what actually happened to start the gunfight, however, the battle lasted a total of fifteen minutes. When the shooting had stopped, ten men including two coal miners, Albert Felts, his brother, Lee, five other Baldwin-Felts detectives, and Matewan Mayor Cabell Testerman were dead. This event would be forever known as the Matewan Massacre.

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