I have been reading a book — the diary of Sarah Morgan — from the Civil War. She wrote about the Union coming in, looting and burning Baton Rouge. When one of her family’s slaves tried to stop some of the looting, saying her home belonged to a poor widow and her daughters, the soldiers made comments about them not being so poor and had some former slaves from the area come through and loot whatever they felt like.
many stories like that, many slaves and union soldiers would rape the women and rob the homes as there was no men about anymore.
It is estimated that the south lost two generations because of the war, by the time the north got to the south they were fighting 60 year old men and 10 year old boys plus women.
as for carpetbaggers not coming down here anymore, then that is not true as it is till goes on today here in north florida .