Matewan Historic District, located in Matewan, West Virginia, was the scene of which shootout in the town of Matewan in Mingo County and the Pocahontas Coalfield mining district, in southern West Virginia?
Matewan Historic District Matewan Historic District, located in Matewan, West Virginia, was the scene of the Battle of Matewan on May 19, 1920, during a coal miners' strike. It led to the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest insurrection ever associated with the labor movement in the United States.
Battle of Sewell's Point The Battle of Sewell's Point was an inconclusive exchange of cannon fire between the Union gunboat USS "Monticello", supported by the USS "Thomas Freeborn", and Confederate batteries on Sewell's Point that took place on May 18, 19 and 21, 1861, in Norfolk County, Virginia in the early days of the American Civil War. Little damage was done to either side. By the end of April 1861, USS "Cumberland" and a small number of supporting ships were enforcing the Union blockade of the southeastern Virginia ports at the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay and had captured several ships which attempted to pass the blockade. USS "Monticello's" bombardment of the Sewell's Point battery was one of the earliest Union Navy actions against Confederate forces during the Civil War. While it has been suggested by some sources that the "Monticello's" action may have been the first gunfire by the Union Navy during the Civil War, a brief exchange of cannon fire between the U.S. gunboat USS "Yankee" and shore batteries manned by Virginia volunteer forces which had not yet been incorporated into the Confederate States Army at Gloucester Point, Virginia on the York River occurred on May 7, 1861.