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=Souths Economy= == = = The Souths economy suffered greatly due to food shortages and riots which were caused by Union troops, as you know the war was a war of attrition which led to the south exhausting all their resources such as food, people, guns and clothing. This war had a great impact on the south and its economy. General Grant let the Confederate troops go back to their homes and keep their horses so that they can replant crops and rebuild the south. The south was never going to be the same because they didn't have their old agricultural economy but they built an economy run on industry, over the years the south was flooded with over 40,000 miles of railroad.