The history of how what was marketed as the “little carefree car” that was built to be as “indestructible as a Model T" became known as one of the most dangerous cars ever built deserves to be remembered.
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.