Article about Civil War

The following is true and has been taken from a reliable source. This is some information that I collected that occured after the civil war, and the effects of the war:
The 'scene' after the war when the soldiers returned home was between sorrow and delightfulness. For example, one of the confederate soldiers came home and his dog did not recognize him until he talked to him. The soldiers came back for a cause defeated and in many cases many of their houses were destroyed. When the soldiers came back from were they noticed many changes. First of all, war had destroyed two thirds of the South's shipping industry and about nine thousand miles of railroads. It had destroyed machines, farmland, and many other important stuff. Not only was land and machines destroyed, but also the war had destroyed lives of young and, healthy men: fathers, brothers, and husbands. The survivors of this atrocious war were permanently scarred in mind or body. Children became orphans and married women became widows. Next, they saw that the black southerners were free. Finally, the postwar South was made up of three major groups of people. There were the Black Southerners, the Plantation owners, and the Poor White Southerners. The black southerners as slaves received food and shelter. Some after a a lifetime of forced labor, many found themselves without jobs, homes, and were hungry. Some freed slaves did not choose to work and stayed on the plantations of their masters. Others looked for new jobs in the cities and in the west.
African Americans celebrated their freedom. They were no longer treated as if they were the property of someone, the feeling they felt was overwhelming. During the war enslaved people simply walked out of the plantations. The others that were no longer slaves went looking for their close ones, that were taken from them by slavery. Black leaders new that physical freedom was only a start, that true freedom would come along with economic independence. The freed slaves urged the government to redistribute land. In 1865 general William Tecumseh Sherman set up a land distribution experiment in South Carolina. Soon the President Johnson forced the freedmen out and gave back the lands to the original owners. However, unofficial land distribution took place again. For example a freedman that stayed working at the plantation called Amos Morel bought land with his wages to buy more than 400 acres of land. He then sold pieces to other freemen, and later bought a land for his daughter. African Americans looked after each other to survive. Lots of black organizations arose throughout the South. Historians estimate that in 1860, nearly 90 percent of the black adults were illiterate. However sometimes young white women volunteered to teach them. Also, Charlotte Forten a wealthy black women helped a lot. To help black southerners adjust to freedom congress created the Freedman's bureau. At first the Bureau lacked strong support from the congress. However later on the bureau gave out clothing, medical supplies, and millions of meals to both black and white war refugee's. More than 250,000 African American students got their first formal education in bureau schools.
Andrew Johnson was the president. He got to be the president because first of all he was the vice-president. Also he supported the poor white people. Johnson was the only southern senator to remain in congress after secession. The republicans elected Johnson as Lincoln's running mate to attract democratic voters.