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Old 03-01-2011, 12:34 AM
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sandilee
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Very interesting. At the start of the civil war alot of the cotton mills were located in the south. I imagine alot (if all) of them were not running/operating on a/c of the war, which would be one reason why the prices were so very, very high!
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