Describe the devastation to Southern cities, towns, countryside after the Civil War.

Southern cities in the borderlands were destroyed and their youth were almost always massacred by the end of the war.

Explanation:

The southern plantations and its bustling cities had been completely destroyed at the sites of the biggest battles and they would not recover for some of the coming time in the US.

These cities were often in the middle of battle or had to face a crippling loss of trade due to the war and the US cutting off their trade routes making them fall into disarray because of it.

It was often seen that these cities and towns were deserted and most people of there became slum dwellers up north.

the technology changed agriculture in an impacting manner since many people left the field work by a cellular or other technological appliances

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