While the origins of the game are both ancient and international, and today the game is popular world wide, poker is a product of the American frontier that was once called “The Great American Game.”
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.