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The Mitcham War was a bloody conflict that occurred in Clarke County, Alabama in the early 1890s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-3209 )〕 The conflict was between rural farmers in remote section of Clarke County named Mitcham Beat and merchants class in Coffeeville and other towns near the Mitcham Beat.〔 Some accounts characterize the conflict as resulting from the 1892 elections that left rural whites disenfranchised and angry and resulting in racial violence. Around 1890, a group of rural young men formed a secret society called "Hell-at-the-Breech" that believed their local economy was being controlled by a small group. On December 25, 1892, the gang entered Coffeeville and murdered a prominent businessman.〔 Soon a vigilante mob of 500 formed to seek the Hell-at-the-Breech murderers, and eventually killed 5 men.〔 Different sources have the violence continuing until fall of 1893 after the Hell-at-the-breech disbanded〔 or when the mob of Clarke County men publicly shot a prominent member of the Hell-at-the-Breech gang.〔 ==Additional reading== *Brown, Jerry Elijah. Alabama's Mitcham Wars: Essaying Mortal Wounds., Atlanta: Looking Glass Books, 2011. *Jackson, Hardy, Joyce White Burrage, and James A. Cox. The Mitcham War of Clarke County, Alabama. Grove Hill, Alabama: ''Clarke County Democrat'', 1988. *Jackson, Hardy. "The Middle-Class Democracy Victorious: The Mitcham War of Clarke County, Alabama, 1893." ''Journal of Southern History'' 57 (August 1991): 453-78. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mitcham War」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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