Aberdeen is an unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia, USA. Lewis County is a county located in the state of West Virginia. ... State nickname: Mountain State Other U.S. States Capital Charleston Largest city Charleston Governor Joe Manchin (D) Senators Robert Byrd (D) Jay Rockefeller (D) Official languages English Area 62,809 km² (41st) - Land 62,436 km² - Water 376 km² (0. ...
Although intervention in labor disputes was a relatively routine duty for army personnel by 1920, the interventions in WestVirginia represented a watershed in the history of the army role in suppressing domestic disorders.
The WestVirginia disturbances were significant as they closed a chapter involving extraordinary extra-legal procedures in the domestic employment of federal troops and in effect restored the provisions of the pre-war statutes and the Posse Comitatus Act.
WestVirginia, on the other hand, having temporized with the organization of its National Guard, had raised a relatively small volunteer state police force made up of "respectable Mingo County citizens." Major Thompson concluded, however, that in the cases of both Kentucky and WestVirginia "authorities have not taken sufficiently active measures.
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