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- On April 2, 1863 in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, about 5,000 people, mostly poor women, broke into shops and began seizing food, clothing, shoes, and even jewelry before the Militia arrived to restore order. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of items were stolen. No one died and few were injured.
One of the first wide-scale riots in the US, this was one of the things that you never learn in school. Now that I live in the South, whenever the Civil War is brought up it is taught as though everyone below the Ohio River was all gung-ho for the war, and once the shooting started the South fought as one people until the end. Nope, life is a lot more complicated than a simple black and white.