Taken in the entire context of the US Civil War, the food supply riots in Richmond were no more significant as the anti draft riots in New York City in 1863. Both events were damaging to the Union and the Confederacy. It must be noted that only by a long siege was the Union able to capture Richmond in 1864. Quite a number of military attacks on Richmond failed miserably earlier in the war.
On April 2, 1863, a group of hungry women in Richmond, Virginia, grew to more than a thousand angry women yelling, "Bread! Bread!" They began to break into stores.
After the bread riots in Richmond in April of 1863, similar food shortage disturbances followed in Atlanta, Columbus, and Mobile, Alabama to name just a few places where citizens experienced food shortages. These problems were mostly in the East. The irony of them was that in the South's agricultural economy, the Confederate government was able to supply its armies, but not all of its people.
the food riots in Paris were in 1793
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Civil strife is a generic term for domestic riots, unrest, war or similar instances.
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Food was scarce in the South.
Food was scarce in the south Apex
Southern Bread Riots happened in 1863.
Cardiff Ely Bread Riots happened in 1991.
On April 2, 1863, a group of hungry women in Richmond, Virginia, grew to more than a thousand angry women yelling, "Bread! Bread!" They began to break into stores.
After the bread riots in Richmond in April of 1863, similar food shortage disturbances followed in Atlanta, Columbus, and Mobile, Alabama to name just a few places where citizens experienced food shortages. These problems were mostly in the East. The irony of them was that in the South's agricultural economy, the Confederate government was able to supply its armies, but not all of its people.
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