With parades held from New York to San Francisco to Nokomis IL, patriotic fervor swept the nation over a date little remembered today. The Centennial Celebration of Washington’s Inauguration deserves to be remembered.
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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.