<P> Scarlett, however, leads her complaining sister Suellen, and semi-stunned and emotionally numb sister Carreen, and the house slaves (all unaccustomed to hard manual labor), in harvesting the remaining cotton plants . She manages to salvage a few hundred pounds of the crop (enough to trade for food, perhaps) but sees her labor rendered useless when a small detachment of Union troops finds the cotton in a slave cabin and sets it ablaze . When one of the soldiers is prevented, by his commanding officer, from taking a gilded sword that once belonged to Scarlett's long - dead father - in - law and intended for her little boy Wade Hamilton (the officer is himself a veteran of the same campaigns as the sword's former owner), the thwarted Yankee soldier expresses his indignation by secretly setting a wing of the house on fire as the Yankees are leaving . The family (which at this point, includes the convalescent Melanie Wilkes, Scarlett's sister - in - law by her marriage to her first husband - Melanie's dead brother - Charles Hamilton) extinguishes the flames before they can spread, but the mansion is further damaged . </P> <P> When a Union deserter attempts to rob and rape Scarlett, she kills him in self - defense and vengeance . With the tiny windfall of money he was carrying, and with his horse and the aid of Will Benteen, a Confederate private and amputee nursed through a near - fatal fever by the O'Haras, the land is planted once again, on a subsistence scale . The family is able to eke out a very meager living, leaving them constantly hungry but at least not homeless or starving . </P> <P> Peace returns after the war, but not prosperity . Scarlett manages to save Tara from being seized and the family from dispossession only by deceitfully marrying her sister Suellen's fiance, Frank Kennedy, and using his savings to pay the $300 in taxes levied on the place . Though Scarlett returns to Atlanta where her fortunes rise as she takes over and expands her second husband Frank's business interests, she shares her new wealth with Tara . Tara never achieves anything like its antebellum grandeur, but it does become self - supporting as a "two horse" farm . While far from rich, the O'Haras are at least in better condition than most of their neighbors . While Scarlett is in Atlanta, Suellen, the sister whom Scarlett's husband truly loved, conspires with the hated carpetbaggers and scalawags to defraud the victorious United States government of $150,000 by having her senile father swear an oath that his family was pro-Union during the war; therefore, the cotton burned and the damages done to the place were not justified . The plan backfires and leads to the accidental death of Gerald . It also leads to the social ostracism of Suellen by her neighbors and even some of her relatives, though ironically it increases her worth (slightly) in the eyes of her pragmatic sister Scarlett, who privately believes the plan was brilliant . </P> <P> In 1868, Rhett and Scarlett get married . Rhett has Tara restored the way it was before the war . Rhett and Scarlett have a house built in Atlanta . Though Scarlett resides in Atlanta, she considers Tara her true home . The house is restored and refurnished, the outbuildings are rebuilt, the fields are again stocked with cattle, turkeys, and horses, the land is again planted with cotton (raised now by poor white and free black sharecroppers). By the end of the novel, Tara has come to resemble, as closely as it can, the beautiful red - earthed plantation it was before the war . Scarlett, however, is unable to find peace or happiness . Though she has come back from defeat and starvation to become one of the wealthiest women in the south and is even far richer and more spoiled than she ever expected to be, she feels miserable and empty . Most of this is due to, first her hopeless love for Ashley Wilkes, later her loss of Rhett's love (unfortunately, after realizing Rhett is the one she loves), and the death of their daughter Bonnie, (and perhaps her loss of Melanie's friendship through her death, as well). After Rhett leaves Scarlett, she returns to Tara, declaring that she will win back his love one day . </P>

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