sentences:  These brought in thousands of soldiers into town at a time, one that had just over a thousand of its own inhabitants prior to the war, putting an enormous strain on food and accommodations in the town.Many hundreds of the soldiers who died in the hospitals during the war were buried in a Confederate cemetery on the south end of Webb's Bend, but the site is underwater today, following the damming of the river below Demopolis in the 20th century.After the loss of its primary east-west railroad during the war, the Confederate government completed the Alabama and Mississippi Rivers Railroad from Selma through Demopolis and on to Meridian, Mississippi in 1862.