On August 9, 1908, Deputy Sheriff Otha Zeiglar Dent, aged 26, was fatally shot during a violent confrontation involving striking miners near Birmingham, Alabama. Deputy Dent was aboard a Birmingham Mineral Branch Railroad train transporting Alabama National Guard members, fellow sheriff's deputies, and approximately 50 strikebreakers to a mine near Blocton. As the train approached trestle No. 9, it came under heavy fire from a group of men armed with rifles and shotguns, resulting in hundreds of
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