Fans of The History Guy can check me out on tonight's (2/9) episode of History's Deadliest with Ving Rhames entitled "Islands" and Friday's (2/13) new episode of The UnXplained with William Shatner entitled "Mysteries of Ancient Africa."
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.