Gunpowder Girls: The True Stories of Three Civil War Tragedies by Tanya Anderson

Gunpowder Girls: The True Stories of Three Civil War Tragedies

Tanya Anderson

160 pages first pub 2016 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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 ...

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