Gunpowder Girls: The True Stories of Three Civil War Tragedies

✍ Scribed by Tanya Anderson

• Publisher: Quindaro Press;Smashwords Edition
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 438 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 096692584X

✦ Synopsis

"With thousands of men off fighting in the Civil War, the government hired women and girls—some as young as ten—to 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 beyond recognition.As Steve Sheinkin did with The Port Chicago 50, Tanya Anderson in Gunpowder Girls tells an amazing war story that finally gives its subjects their due. Hidden history comes alive through primary-source research and page-turning narrative.Gunpowder Girls is a story of child labor and immigrant hopes and the cruel, endless demands of an all-consuming war."Outstanding," raves Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. "Thoroughly researched and beautifully written, this tragic story of 140 girls and young women killed by gunpowder explosions in three arsenals where they produced ammunition for Civil War armies...