244 years ago, in a little known event of the American Revolution, the people of Richmond Virginia would learn the true extent to which the former American hero had changed sides.
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.