Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hi, it's Beckett, and I have an audio postcard for you from the little town of Bardstown, Kentucky.

So we were on a family vacation, and I found out that we were within striking distance of the women's civil war museum.

So how could I resist? And I convinced my husband to leave the pool for a day trip, which is pretty gracious of him, I must say.

So thanks, honey. So we drove on the highway for about an hour.

So when we got there, the museum was very short of actual artifacts, you know, things, three-dimensional objects.

But there were a lot of stories here, and I did learn a lot, and you know, some I think I'm going to save for...

They fit in nicely to a couple of subjects we're going to do this season. So I'm going to save them for a possible minicast.

But here's a few things that I learned reading the walls of the women's civil war museum.

This is all homefront things. What was happening not to the soldiers, in fact, mostly bought two civilians.

Now there was a famous bread riot mid-war 1863, so right in the middle of the war.

And honestly, the Confederacy was not doing so well economically.

There was a shortage of food, and the prices, in fact, had gone up about seven times, what they were at the beginning of the war.

So add to this, to the fact that Richmond, Virginia, was kind of right in the middle of the whole action.

So waves of union soldiers and Confederate soldiers, not only the battles themselves, but the soldiers, like Locust, kind of denuded all the farms.

And so the local supply was really hard hit. And on this day, this famous starting women in Richmond Day, a lot of women assembled at a church, and they marched and demanded relief from the governor.

And they complained about the prices and the shortages. And he basically threw up his hand. He's like, I don't know, I don't know what to tell you.

And they just turned it to an angry mob instantly, and started screaming, bread, bread!

And they started smashing windows, and kicking indoors, and looting the stores, and more and more women came out.

At first, to see what the commotion was, and then to kind of join in the bounty of the riot. And it was more than a thousand, mostly women.

You know, they're not very many men, civilian men, anyway, around right now. And so they converged and kind of helped themselves to everything they could find.

And the president of the Confederacy, his name is Jefferson Davis, he showed up.

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