[Bull Snipe]

Cite a reliable source for the 2 million death figure from starvation and disease in the South after the Civil War.

[DiogenesLamp]

Cite a reliable source for the 2 million death figure from starvation and disease in the South after the Civil War.

To do that, I would have to first remember where I read it. Since I don't, you might have a wait till I find it again.

[DiogenesLamp]

Not the information you are looking for, but a pretty good background regarding it.

https://civilwartalk.com/threads/famine-in-the-post-war-south.94503/

[Jack Black]

Cite a reliable source for the 2 million death figure from starvation and disease in the South after the Civil War.

Sure!

Here is a book review from the U.K. based Guardian/Observer magazine of "Sick From Freedom" by historian Jim Downs of Connecticut College:
How the end of slavery led to starvation and death for millions of black Americans

Jim Downs is the director of American Studies at Connecticut College. He is the recipient of a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and both his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Cheers!