Upper Peninsula miners' strike of 1865

When

1865

Kind

Strike

Coordinates

39.83° N, 98.58° W

Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.

Ore miners working on the Marquette Iron Range went on strike in July 1865, shortly after the end of the American Civil War. They were put down by a naval detachment from the USS Michigan, using an improvised armored train, and later with an army detachment from Chicago.

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