what struggles might the veterans have in decades to come

Explanation:  Veterans would often struggle with salary to provide for their family. They would also struggle with copping, being back home instead of being in combat. Men happened to get paid more in jobs then the woman.

an economic reason that the south needed a reconstruction plan is that plantations, factories, and other businesses were destroyed during the war.

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”