Bread Riots

Linked to Welfare and Poverty during the Civil War

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Hunger on the Georgia home front became so serious during the Civil War that food riots, with women as the main participants, broke out all across the state beginning in 1863.

From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

Bread Riots

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