On March 1, 1927 A.P. Giannini's Bank of Italy merged with a smaller bank. In 1930 he would change the name of his bank to that of the smaller one- Bank of America.
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.