Killed in combat on July 14, 1918, Quentin Roosevelt was a man who had been known and beloved by almost the entire nation. The death of the only son of a US president to die in combat deserves to be remembered.
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.