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The problem which the South had to solve has been, not how to be comfortable during the war, but how to live at all.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “The problem which the South had to solve has been, not how to be comfortable during the war, but how to live at all.”
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Reid reflects on the dire conditions faced by the South after the Civil War.
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