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Severe shortage of supplies, with the blockade of Southern ports becomng more effective.

In the last months of the war, with Sherman and Sheridan destroying farms in the most fertile parts of the South, the troops were on short rations, and the army that surrendered to Grant at Appomattox were barefoot and starving.

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