Food Shortages in the South
Family's everywhere are starving.
What Happened to All the Food
The war has created many problems for people in the south. Most men are away fighting in the war so they cannot grow food at their farms. The slaves were also gone so they could not work in the fields either. That is not the only cause of all this hunger though, most money goes into paying for weapons for the soldiers in the army. So because of this, not many people can afford to buy food or get it.
A Starving Child
This boy hasn't had a single meal today and neither have his siblings because their family has a hard time getting a hold of food.
Protesting
This was happening before people got desperate enough to break into stores. They would protest so they could get food, but were soon stopped.
Fighting
The people would storm into stores to steal food. They would fight each other just so they could get food for themselves.
How Hungry are the People
Food! Food! Food!
Women in the south could not get enough food to feed themselves and their family's and this was happening everywhere at the time. Then riots broke out at bakeries just so people could get one loaf of bread to appease their hunger or get the food for their kids. All were malnourished and starving, but storming the bakeries wasn't such a good idea because soon afterwards the president Jefferson Davis came and ordered them to disperse or be shot.