Mingo County, West Virginia. Sid’s town. That morning, they’d gone up to the coal camp above town and thrown out the families of every miner who’d joined the Union. While the men were at work underground, they’d forced out the wives and children at gunpoint, piled their belongings in the road, and barred the doors behind them. Quilts and kettles and hobbyhorses were hurled out into the rain, cane chairs and hanging mirrors and old war uniforms—anything the company didn’t own. Now they’d come for Sid.
