"With thousands of men off fighting in the Civil War, the government hired women and girlsβsome as young as tenβto make millions of rounds of ammunition. Poor immigrant girls and widows paid the price for carelessness at three major arsenals. Many of these workers were killed, blown up and burned be
Gunpowder Girls: The True Stories of Three Civil War Tragedies
- Publisher
- Quindaro Press;Smashwords Edition
- Year
- 2016
- Category
- Fiction
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