FEDERAL TROOPS IN DOMESTIC DISTURBANCES By Major George S. Patton, Jr., Cavalry � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

FEDERAL TROOPS IN DOMESTIC DISTURBANCES By Major George S. Patton, Jr., Cavalry � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL):

Scarcely was Washington inaugurated than the need for federal intervention in domestic disturbances became emphasized by the so called “Whiskey Rebellion.” From that episode until the present time, federal troops have been called out more than a hundred times to participate in these most distasteful forms of service. While the majority of these incidents were insignificant, some dozen of them reached major proportions. Of these we may mention the following;

The “Dorr Rebellion” in Rhode Island in 1842; the Abolition disturbances in Kansas between 1854 and 1858; the railroad strikes of 1877, extending through West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana; the Chicago strike of 1894; the San Francisco fire of 1906; the West Virginia coal strikes of 1921; and lastly, the “Bonus War” of 1932

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