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To: Road Walker who wrote (346032)	8/7/2007 11:32:18 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576160

the north didn't have food shortages so I guess they weren't at war

To: Road Walker who wrote (346032)	8/9/2007 5:43:26 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576160

An interesting observation........you would have thought with the long growing seasons, fertile soil, abundant slave labor....that food shortages would have been the least of the South's problems. The shortage of food during the Civil War affected many Southerners on the homefront. Although some parts of the South enjoyed an abundance of foodstuffs, other parts of the Confederacy experienced severe deprivation. As the war continued and conditions grew worse, Southerners' winter of discontent turned into years of unhappiness and sacrifice. Southerners consumed milk, corn, butter, meal, and an occasional piece of meat. Tea, sugar, and coffee were rare commodities for them. Agriculture suffered as farms and plantations were neglected when men left home to fulfill their military obligations to the Confederacy. The inability of families to cultivate and harvest crops was a constant reminder of how their world had been turned upside down by the war. The long and brutal conflict tested the endurance of men, women, and children, not least in terms of how they coped with and reacted to the scarcity of food.