Nestled along the gulf coast between Georgia and Mississippi, Alabama is at the very heart of America's deep south. The state has a history as complex as southern culture, a history that shows in its borders which are, frankly, weird.
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.