24 oct. 1863 - Bread Riots in Mobile, Alabama
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| WHAT: | Large crowds of women plundered army food supplies | WHY: | Congress authorized military authors to seize farm goods to supply the army, called 'impressment' | already poor yeoman farmers were pissed and starving | NOTE: | Also riots in Richmondville, Virginia
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