The good men who won the war : Army of the Cumberland veterans and emancipation memory / Robert Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Robert Eno, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soldiers--United States--Attitudes--History--19th century.

Soldiers.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States--Public opinion--History--19th century.

Enslaved persons.

Slavery--United States--Public opinion--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Public opinion--United States--History--19th century.

Public opinion.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

United States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans.

United States--Race relations--History--19th century.

United States. Army of the Cumberland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robert Hunt examines how Union veterans of the Army of the Cumberland employed the extinction of slavery in the trans-Appalachian South in their memory of the Civil War. This work demonstrates that both the collapse of slavery and the economic and social post-War experience convinced these veterans that they had participated in the construction of the United States as a world power, built on the victory won against corrupt Southern plutocrats who had impeded the rightful development of the country.

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prelude: The Army of the Cumberland's War, 1861-1865; 1. Remembered War; Forgotten Struggle; 2. Victory in "God's Country"; 3. Incorporating Friends and Enemies; 4. Legacies; Epilogue; Appendix: Cumberland Regimental Histories and Personal Memoirs Reviewed for This Study; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-173) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8352-2

OCLC:

664233648