This 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 Mobile Bread Riot was spurred by drastic food shortages during the Civil War.
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