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Mainly, food procurement. Most of the southerners were small farmers, and less than 9% owned slaves. So with most of the men at war, women and children had to work the farms.

As the war progressed and Union troops invaded the south, they took no mercy on these helpless ones, burning crops, stealing livestock, even burning homes.

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