In this episode we look at the refugee crisis in the South during the war. Throughout the war refugees would crowd the roads, trains, towns, and cities of the south in a futile search for sanctuary from the Union invaders. Thousands of whites fled from the occupying Union troops. At the same time, even larger numbers of African American slaves were uprooted with their white owners or fled for freedom in Union lines. The civilians in the North did not suffer anything like these agonies of invasion and displacement. Few in the north ever saw Confederate troops at their own front door. Few ever saw their homes burned, their food confiscated, their livestock and wagons driven off. For those in the South this was common. Fighting a war that was primarily defensive, the rebellious states had to deal with an aggression on their own territory. And each wave of enemy penetration, as it smashed through farmlands and cities in Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and finally both Carolinas, thousands were compelled to either flee or live under the conquerors.