Gunpowder Girls
The True Stories of Three Civil War Tragedies

This book is an account of three major disasters that occurred during the American Civil War that resulted in the deaths of a large number of young women. War causes death, and the Civil War certainly caused many thousands of deaths. But these stories of mostly poor and young immigrant women working......more

I received this book through the Library Thing Early Reviewers Program. I have read numerous books on the Civil War, but I was completely ignorant of the three tragedies related in this nonfiction book: the young women, mostly immigrants, who assembled ammunition and were killed in accidental explosi......more

I love Civil War nonfiction and this book was about a subject I had never heard anything about. It was very well researched and the story was compelling. The author did a great job paying tribute to the gils and women who lost their lives in arsenals while supplying ammunition for both sides.......more

Our Teen Librarian recommended that I check this out because of my interest in the American Civil War. Before there was Rosie the Riveter, there were the Gunpowder Girls -- young women and children, mostly immigrants, who worked to produce the millions of rounds of ammunition used by both the North a......more