- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Civil War Women's Riot historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Muscogee County
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Broadway between 13th St. and 14th St., Columbus
Text of marker: "Civil War Women's Riot. On April 11, 1863 during the American Civil War, sixty-five Columbus women armed with knives and pistols rallied at this site and marched down Broad Street raiding the stores of speculators before police could restore order. During the war many planters ignored the Confederate government's plea to grow food crops and continued to focus on cotton production instead, which was much more profitable but resulted in a food shortage that hit southern urban women particularly hard. Hoarding food and other commodities by speculating merchants made problems even worse. Women responded by staging riots all across the South, including in every major city in Georgia. 2010.9 Erected for the Civil War 150 commemoration by the Georgia Historical Society and the Georgia Department of Economic Development 106-2" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_civil-war-womens-riot
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_civil-war-womens-riot
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
-
