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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Wesley Nelson, Collector, Rifle from Battle of Blair Mountain, A&M 4499,
West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
One Enfield Rifle (47 in. in length) recovered from the site of the Battle of Blair Mountain (1921) in Logan County, West
Virginia. There are also shell casings of various calibers recovered from the Blair Mountain site. This collection is currently
in a flat storage box (2 in. x 14 in. x 60 in.).