Look up the 1860s US Railroad map. What little rail connection that tied Fla to the Confederacy were all limited to the Georgia-FLA border. It would be logistically impossible for FLA to be “the bread basket of the confederacy”
The Shenandoah Valley was known as the Bread Basket of the South during the Civil War since it supplied much of the food and other badly needed resources for troops. Today, the region continues to support a healthy agriculture industry — including great Angus cattle.
DISUNION August 8, 2012
The Breadbasket of the Union
By CHRISTOPHER PHILLIPS
The summer of 1862 saw the Civil War’s two fronts as a mirror image. In the West, Federal troops had harnessed long stretches of the Cumberland, Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers to drive deep into the Confederacy. Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Nashville and Memphis had all fallen, leaving Union forces largely in control of Kentucky, middle and western Tennessee, northern Mississippi and northern Alabama.
But in Virginia, Confederates were having a summer of unprecedented successes. Stonewall Jackson humiliated five different federal commanders in the Shenandoah Valley and at the Battle of Cedar Mountain. Robert E. Lee had stymied George B. McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign aimed at Richmond, and in August joined Jackson to humiliate John Pope at Second Manassas.
Confederate leaders saw this as the moment to capitalize on these successes with a bold military incursion into Kentucky in August. The Union’s breadbasket, the western border states lying astride the Ohio River, was about to become the next front.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/the-breadbasket-of-the-union/