Today is February 26, which in an arcane twist of history might actually represent the beginning of time as we know it. And, as time went on, things continued to happen on this day in history.
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.