This is a big subtopic within this period. They had trouble with feeding the people because Southern policy to deter the war (Cotton is King speech) was to sto

This is a big subtopic within this period. They had trouble with feeding the people because Southern policy to deter the war (Cotton is King speech) was to stop the cultivation of cotton. The CSA decreed that all the cash croppers convert to food farming. This did not work very well, they self-collapsed their own economy, and the hoped for British intervention never happened.