The 1900 fight for the Union Park Ball Grounds is a story that would be too strange to be believed, if it didn’t actually happen.
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.