The name USS Arizona is among the most famous of the Navy, but for all the wrong reasons. She was a ship of war that became a symbol of war, but which, perhaps, most represented the peacetime Navy.
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.