If the food shortage was so bad in the confederacy then why didn't more people try to correct the problem by rebelling against their ineffective government. Surely that many starving people couldn't all blame the Union for their lack of food enough to be content and let the war continue. I know history shows that they do but I personally don't think I could stand by and let my children starve. Maybe that is why I didn't find the fact that a mob of woman and some men and boys breaking into stores and stealing what they needed/ wanted to survive all that shocking.
The other thing that amazes me is the reluctance of the military to use Black soldiers considering they felt they were inferior. I would think that they wouyld use them in seige type conflicts so that they could have the "inferior" soldiers charge from the front and exhaust the opposition while the other soldiers came around from behind thus minimizing the number of "worthy" or "superior" soldiers that were uninjured. (Sounds racist but it is just my understanding of their thinking) Maybe I just don't get their logic at all.