Though always an important North Carolina city, Charlotte truly helped
to make history during the Civil War. The city's factories produced
gunpowder, percussion caps, and medicine for the Confederate cause.
Perhaps most importantly, Charlotte housed the Confederate Naval
Ordnance Depot and Naval Works, manufacturing iron for ironclad vessels
and artillery projectiles, and providing valuable ammunition for the
South. Charlotte also sent over 2,500 men into the Confederate army, and
played home to a military hospital, a Ladies Aid Society, a prison and
even the mysterious Confederate gold. When Richmond fell, Jefferson
Davis set up his headquarters in Charlotte, making it the unofficial
capital. Join historian Michael C. Hardy as he recounts the triumphs and
struggles of Queen City civilians and soldiers in the Civil War.