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Steadily ruined it.

The blockade prevented them from exporting their one big commodity - cotton.

The battles were nearly all in the South, so those areas suffered damage from combat and troop movement.

In the last year, Grant ordered the burning of farms and wrecking of railroads, which brought civilans and trops to the edge of starvation.

All this caused ruinous inflation, making the Confederate dollar increasingly worthless.

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