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At the beginning, a slave-owner would have assumed that the war would soon be won, and he would be dreaming of a glorious slave-empire reaching all the way to the Pacific.

In the second half, he would be watching Union troops liberating slaves all over the South, while the cotton withered away, and the Confederacy steadily ran out of supplies, both for the armies and civilians.

By the end, he would be cursing the arrogance of those who whipped-up enthusiasm for this war in the first place.

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