 Nearly all the white men had served, some 122,000 he said, of whom 35,000 died in the war and another 30,000 were seriously disabled.The next year, Governor Robert M. Patton estimated that 20,000 veterans had returned home permanently disabled, and there were 20,000 widows and 60,000 orphans.With cotton prices low, the value of farms shrank, from $176 million in 1860 to only $64 million in 1870.