The death of 94 year old Ida Mayfield Wood in 1932 represented more than the passing of a famous socialite, but the beginning of a startling mystery, a tale more strange than anyone imagined, all amid literally piles of cash.
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.