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three-and-a-half billion dollars worth.
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Forty percent of all Southern livestock were dead at the end of the war.
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Fifty percent of all farm machinery destroyed.
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There was an enormous refugee problem.
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Mobilization had occurred unmatched;
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it will be unmatched until World War Two.
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And in the South, in particular,
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the war had killed approximately--
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killed or incapacitated, excuse me--
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one of every four males from the age of sixteen to forty-five.
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How do you process that kind of loss and destruction and violence
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in a society that must find a way to reconcile?