Revival History

 Baldwin Felts agents, Welch, WV  The Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency was a private detective agency in the United States. Today it is most remembered for its violent confrontations with labor union members in such places as the Pocahantas Coal Field region of West Virginia, the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike of 1912 in West Virginia, and in Ludlow, Colorado leading up to the Ludlow Massacre. Further members of the agency were central actors in the events that lead to the Battle of Blair Mountain. -  A former attorney general of West Virginia, Howard B. Lee, who knew both Baldwin and Felts, recalled that the men were the "two most feared and hated men in the mountains." - Seven Baldwin–Felts detectives, including Thomas Felts' brothers Albert and Lee, were killed in Matewan on May 19, 1920, during a shootout known as either the Matewan Massacre or the Battle of Matewan. Three townspeople were also killed, including Matewan Mayor Cabell Testerman.   Following the ...

 Baldwin Felts agents, Welch, WV  The Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency was a private detective agency in the United States. Today it is most remembered for its violent confrontations with labor union members in such places as the Pocahantas Coal Field region of West Virginia, the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike of 1912 in West Virginia, and in Ludlow, Colorado leading up to the Ludlow Massacre. Further members of the agency were central actors in the events that lead to the Battle of Blair Mountain. -  A former attorney general of West Virginia, Howard B. Lee, who knew both Baldwin and Felts, recalled that the men were the "two most feared and hated men in the mountains." - Seven Baldwin–Felts detectives, including Thomas Felts' brothers Albert and Lee, were killed in Matewan on May 19, 1920, during a shootout known as either the Matewan Massacre or the Battle of Matewan. Three townspeople were also killed, including Matewan Mayor Cabell Testerman.   Following the ...