miners and behind the army raised by Sheriff Chafin. The remaining federal troops, regulars of the Twenty-sixth Infantry, would reinforce the remaining units of the Nineteenth Infantry at Madison, with additional companies positioning themselves along the Kanawha River at Marmet, Paint Creek, Lens Creek, and Montgomery. As the first two columns began their double envelopment of the Blair Mountain battle area, General Bandholtz ordered a cease-fire to go into effect at 4 p.m. In compliance with Governor Morgan's order to obey Bandholtz, the sheriff's deputies and the volunteers of the Logan force immediately disbanded. The miners, reassured then that they would not be attacked, and unwilling to resist so many regulars and the power of the national government, surrendered to the federal troops or simply went home. Althoughcasualty figures were not kept by either side, best estimates put the death toll during the Battle of Blair Mountain at sixteen with all but four of the dead being miners. None of the casualties were inflicted by federal forces.43

Between September 4-8, 1921, federal troops disarmed and sent home without incident nearly fifty-four hundred miners. Having dramatically restored peace and order, virtually without firing a shot and without army-induced bloodshed, General Bandholtz refused Governor Morgan's subsequent request for military posses to help civil authorities arrest miners wanted for violations of state laws. The maintenance of long-term order in West Virginia and the arrest of suspects, in Bandholtz's mind, was not an army job once calm was initially restored. Military intelligence agents investigated union headquarters and meeting halls for