Farmland and buildings are always damaged during military campaigns.
In the Shenandoah, Sheridan was told by Grant to devastate the farms.
In Georgia, Sherman deliberately destroyed farms, burning crops, killing livestock, demolishing homes and wrecking railroads.
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Women would have owned plantations during the Civil War only if no male heirs were available to take the property. Women owning plantations was rare.
Do you mean '...recover from the civil war' ?Because nearly all the campaigns had been on Southern territory, much of it damaged by combat, some of it deliberately by Sherman and Sheridan.And the war had stimulated many of the Northern manufacturing industries, expanding the economy, and employing the new immigrants.
The most obvious are death and the destruction of property.
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Do you mean the Spanish Civil War or the American Civil War?