Gunpowder girls

the true stories of three Civil War tragedies
Tanya Anderson
Book - 2021

Investigates the true stories of Catherine Burkhart, Mary Ryan, and Kate Horan, young immigrant women put to work packing gunpowder into bullets for the North and South during the American Civil War. Discusses their poor working conditions and tragic events they and other young women were forced to live through--such as explosions in weapons arsenals--for the sake of the war.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, Tanya (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Kansas City, Missouri] : Quindaro Press, 2021.
Edition:First paperback edition.
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Gunpowder girls
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505 0 |a Catastrophe at the Allegheny Arsenal, Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania : September 17, 1862. All in a day's work at the arsenal ; The bloodiest day of the war ; What went wrong : the investigation -- A horrible accident at the Confederate States Laboratory, Richmond, Virginia : March 13, 1863. A Friday the thirteenth ; The investigation & outpouring of support -- Stars and fire at the Washington arsenal, Washington, D.C. : June 17, 1864. Government girls in the nation's capital ; A capital disaster ; An immediate investigation ; Of death and decorum -- Epilogue. 
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