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Who caused starvation and food riots in the Confederacy?/b>
The Confederate Armies commandeering the Confederate railroads for military supplies and troops prevent food supplies from being distributed in the Confederacy. Thus leading to starvation and food riots by civilians in the Confederacy.

The problems of distribution of foods in the Confederacy trumped its problems of production of foods. The lack of railroads and roadways in the Confederate States of America lead to food riots and starvation. The Confederate Armies control over railroads and collected of wagons from farmers lead to destruction of rail lines and wagon roads. Food was distributed in the Confederacy mainly to soldiers in the field with less and less food going to civilians in cities and towns.

James Fenimore Cooper was the social historian for the landed gentry's class in New York. He presented his social history in his Littlepage Trilogy: " Satanstoe, The Chainbearer, and The Redskins." Cooper saw the landed gentry's class as the middle part of the pillar of American society.