None of the locations listed above were in the former Confederate States where there was indeed a livestock shortage.
[After the war] "two-thirds of the region's [South's] livestock was gone. . .
When there was a shortage of work stock, the few surviving animals were passed from neighbor to neighbor. But sometimes there was no work stock so the men hitched themselves to the plow.
There was no money in the South.
In 1865 Woonsocket, Rhode Island had more national [banknotes in] circulation than did Mississippi, Arkansas, and North and South Carolina combined. . . Rhode Island had $77.16 for each inhabitant, Arkansas had $0.13.
Source: David L. Cohn,
The Life and Times of King Cotton, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1956), 142, 146, 148