The good men who won the war
Subtitle: Army of the Cumberland veterans and emancipation memory
By: Robert Hunt.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780817316884; 9780817383527
Subjects: United States. -- Army of the Cumberland; Soldiers -- United States -- Attitudes -- History -- 19th century; Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century; Slavery -- United States -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century; Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Description: "Robert Hunt examines how Union veterans of the Army of 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 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 has impeded the rightful development of the country"--Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.