Jack of Harts

The firefight in the Rockfish Gap escalated as midnight approached. More law enforcement and military forces swarmed in from all directions, some seeking to support the Feds, and others seeking the Lexington mayor’s release. Individual Virginians joined in as well, and the conflict spread far out of any control the Commonwealth of Virginia could place on it. The Feds moved to smuggle the mayor of Lexington, and his family, out of the growing firefight and into nearby Afton, but they ran into a disorganized force of mountain volunteers. With the volunteers blocking their path, and the Lexington police and Virginia Defense Force closing in from behind, the Feds called in an air strike to blow a hole for them. That turned out to be another of many bad decisions that day.