What effect does the use of short sentences in this excerpt have on the reader?
The mangled cues of commerce in so much of the Southland only added to the despair.
Railroads, torn apart.
Fields, fellow, hardened, and barren.
Bridges that were defied the physics of uncrossable rivers destroyed.
So many southern cities have been reduced to smoldering rubble.
It gives the reader, a great sense of sympathy for the southerners after the war.
It suggests that only a few harsh words are needed to describe the destruction done to the south
It suggests that the damage done to the southern landscape was minimal
It gives the reader an idea of how great the south was before the war, and how much it lost.