In the story Gone with the Wind, Scarlett O’Hara experiences the food shortages caused by America’s Civil War. Hunger is a horrible fate that no one should endure.
Scarlett knows this. In the famous scene from the movie she vows, “As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.”
The American Civil War, the bloodiest the country has ever seen, was more than a fight between the Northern Union and the Southern Confederacy. It was also a struggle against hunger.
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Author William Lambers 