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So how did most people obtain sugar during the Civil War? Sugar beets were used in France during the Napoleonic Wars, but had failed to catch on here in the US. I assume the Union imported sugar from Caribbean sugar cane. Was the Confederacy able to be self sufficient in producing their own sugar or did they also import it?
Here in Michigan, sugar beets are a major crop, but attempts to produce sugar from sugar beets in Michigan were failures until the 1870s. Today sugar beets provide over a third of the nations sugar.
Here in Michigan, sugar beets are a major crop, but attempts to produce sugar from sugar beets in Michigan were failures until the 1870s. Today sugar beets provide over a third of the nations sugar.