Like any war torn country, they adapted.
Living in a communist nation, and possible prosecution by the new government for committing war crimes against them (because they had fought them).
It was deliberate wrecking of the farms and the railroads, to ruin the Southern economy and starve the Confederate armies in the field.It was carried out in the Shenandoah Valley by Sheridan, and in...
To remain a free "Republic of South Vietnam."
To defend against Communist expansion.