Gunpowder Girls: The True Stories of Three Civil War Tragedies

"Outstanding. Thoroughly researched and beautifully written ... We can now add their names to the human toll of America's greatest conflict" -- James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of Battle Cry Of Freedom

With thousands of men off fighting in the Civil War, the U.S. and Confederate governments 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 arse...