A Study in Scarlet, the first published work to include Sherlock Holmes, was published 136 years ago on December1, 1887. But was there a real person behind the character? The answer is not so elementary.
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.