Mobile Bread Riot - Encyclopedia of Alabama
WEBMar 27, 2023 · The Mobile Bread Riot, which occurred on September 4, 1863, during the Civil War, was the result of rising prices and food shortages caused by the U.S. Navy's blockade of Mobile Bay. The riot was a notable instance of dissatisfaction in Alabama with the course of the war.
Southern bread riots - Wikipedia
WEBThe Southern bread riots were events of civil unrest in the Confederacy during the American Civil War, perpetrated mostly by women in March and April 1863. During these riots, which occurred in cities throughout the Southern United States, hungry women and men invaded and looted various shops and stores.
Mobile Bread Riot, 1863 - Encyclopedia of Alabama
WEBThis dramatic illustrated interpretation of the Mobile Bread Riot, which took place in Mobile, Mobile County, on September 4, 1863, appeared in the weekly journal Pictorial War Record: Battles of the Late Civil War in 1883.
The Bread Riots — Taking it to the Streets — BackStory Archive
WEBIn March and April of 1863, mobs of white women broke into stores and government warehouses across the Confederacy to steal food in what were known as bread riots. There were more than a dozen of these uprisings, from Mobile, Alabama and Salisbury, North Carolina, up to Pittsburgh, Virginia.
Mobile Bread Riots
WEBAnother female bread riot is reported to have taken place in Mobile on September 4, on which occasion the Seventeenth Alabama troops were ordered out to put down the disturbance, but refused to do their duty.
WEBHistorians of riots in southern cities during the Civil War have focused on bread riots in particular and their characteristics, causes and gendered elements. Andrew Smith’s Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War predictably argues that hunger was the deciding factor in the Civil War.2 Smith covers Northern and
16.4: Social Developments - Humanities LibreTexts
WEBJul 10, 2022 · The September 1863 bread riot in Mobile, Alabama was typical. The women took to the streets, shouting “Bread!” and demanding an end to their suffering. The Army, in this case the 17th Alabama, was ordered to put down the riot but refused to attack the families of fellow soldiers.
Mobile Bread Riot (1863) - A People's Calendar
WEBThe Mobile Bread Riot was one of several bread riots that took place in the South during the Civil War. The uprising was a culmination of rising prices and food shortages caused by the Union's naval blockade of Mobile Bay and Confederate general John C. Pemberton's order to not let any corn leave the state of Mississippi.
THE BREAD RIOT IN MOBILE.; Two Outbreaks in One Day. Arrivals …
WEBThe paroled Vicksburgh prisoners at Mobile are sufferings the greatest hardships for want of care and food. Several of them have been seen to lie down in the streets from exhaustion.
WEBFaced with food shortages and inflation, women and men rioted to express their dissatisfaction with the government and living conditions. The press frequently portrayed the protests as women’s riots, although men certainly participated.