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War has an impact on everybody. Joseph E. Holliday examines the impact of the Civil War on the soldiers of Ohio families. How did families receive aid? Where did they get it from? Many relief methods were available at the beginning and end of the war. The civil war was hard on the soldiers let alone their families. There were many methods tried in trying to relieve the families during the war. Ohio was the third most populous state in the union in 1860, having 2,339,511 people. Most of the information about the relief is located in Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Cincinnati was the largest city in Ohio and west of the Alleghenies. What Holliday is saying we can take the information we have from that city and pretty much assume that this was how it was in many other states and cities. The towns in Ohio were not prepared at all in 1861