Starving the South : how the North won the Civil War / Andrew F. Smith.
From the First Shot fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, to the last shot fired at Appomattox, food played a crucial role in the Civil War. In Starving the South, culinary historian Andrew Smith takes a fascinating gastronomical look at the war and its aftermath. At the time, the North mobilized...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
©2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Lincoln's humbug of a blockade
- Scarcity and hunger
- Bread riots
- Abundance and organization
- Gibraltar of the Mississippi
- Traders or traitors?
- The Confederacy's breadbasket
- Giving thanks and no thanks
- Hard war
- Capital hunger.