The most expensive blow comes when the troops torch more than $ 158, 331 worth of baled cotton ( in 2014 currency ) . ( The O'Haras had been unable to sell the cotton to English merchants, owing to the blockade, and thus it was still awaiting transport . ) Upon the army's withdrawal, the family and their loyal remaining slaves are left with a looted and dilapidated house, a ruined farm with no stock, work animals, or farm equipment, no food and no means to produce food.
