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Though Richmond had the biggest riot, Atlanta was home to the first one.
(Atlanta History Center) – In the spring of 1863, amidst soaring inflation and material deprivation, a cascade of armed riots and robberies took place across much of the Confederate States. Occurring in both rural and urban areas, these uprisings were led by white women, many of whom belonged to the yeoman class of small rural farmers. A large proportion of them were also Confederate soldiers’ wives. Their loot was primarily food, cloth, wool, salt, shoes, and other daily necessities.
The largest and most destructive riot took place on April 2, 1863, in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. Possibly as many as five thousand women, and some men, united to appropriate goods. But on March 18, two weeks prior to the Richmond Bread Riot, 10 to 20 white women in downtown Atlanta lit the fuse that started it all.
Led by a “tall, determined woman,” this group stopped in front of a storefront and inquired about the price of bacon. The shopkeeper told them it was a dollar and ten cents per pound. The tall woman pointed out the “impossibility of females in their condition” paying such a large sum for meat on Confederate army wages, but the shopkeeper refused to lower the price. The lead woman, in response, pulled a long navy revolver from her breast and pointed it at the shopkeeper. While holding the man at bay, she then instructed the women to…
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