Senin, 10 Juli 2017

Pennsylvania’s ‘Perfect Hell’

To immigrant miners, federal draft officials were the enemy—and it was time to pitch battle. On the night of November 5,1863, between 20 and 30 men shuffled through the crisp Pennsylvania foliage to the home of George K. Smith, a mine owner and operator living in the tiny coal-patch town of Audenreid. Their faces were …

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