How did land ownership change after the civil war?

Of course with any 'civil' war, there really are no winners. But the former Confederate States were devastated by the war. The loss of life was horrific. The railroads, buildings, plantations and the genteel, southern way of life were in many cases, damaged beyond repair. Human vultures call 'carpetbaggers' swarmed over the wreckage, grabbing all they could. Without slavery, the plantations that were so profitable, would never recover.

With the war at an end, thousands of freed slaves were left adrift in a world they were little prepared to cope in. And with the death of President Lincoln, the restoration of the South was set back decades.

The Southern economy in 1900 was still on 75% of what it was in 1860.