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Hardships on the home front fell most heavily on the poor. Flour that cost three or four cents a pound in 1861 cost thirty-five cents in 1863. The draft stripped yeoman farms of men, leaving the women and children to grow what they ate. Government agents took 10% of farm wives' as a "tax-in-kind" on agriculture. Like inflation, shortages afflicted the entire population, but the rich lost luxuries while the poor lost necessities. In the spring of 1863, bread riots broke out in dozens of cities and villages across the South.

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