The Southern Homefront

May 1, 1861

The Southern Homefront
The Confederacy pratically depended on the south's citizens to provide them clothes for the winter. There shoes also came from the North. When the war started, the production of shoes to the South decreased, therefore, they did not have any shoes most of the time. Prices for everything increased and wheat, flour, corn meal, meats, iron, tin and copper became too expensive for the common household. The roles of women also changed. They staffed the Confederate government as clerks and became schoolteachers. They wew origionally denied to work in the hospitals, but after so many died, they were allowed to work in them. After Atlanta was burned to the ground, the soldiers worried more about their families than staying to fight. So, alot of them went home to start over.