3 - Sustenance

Summary

Both armies seized food from white civilians, and they rarely followed military policy when they did so. Some whites were initially eager to share their bounty with the troops, but as food shortages appeared, they began to resist both armies. Serious food shortages appeared all over the South, and whites began to exhibit the behavior of ravenous people everywhere--food riots, food theft, the consumption of foods previously considered unfit for human consumption.