Robert Hunt is a Professor in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University.

Hunt's [book] is a relatively trim and tidy study, but it certainly packs a punch. . . . It utilizes the personal memoirs of Army of the Cumberland veterans alongside their regimental histories ‘to evaluate how the authors included emancipation in their interpretation of the North's victory in the Civil War.’ The choice of the Army of the Cumberland as the lens through which to refract the multitude of memories and the meanings applied by and to them is an excellent one. . . . the Army of the Cumberland comprised such a broad mix of backgrounds in its soldiery, and operated in an area that received, at best, mixed messages about what the war was about, as to render the perspectives of its veterans especially valuable for historians. Hunt's is such a marvelous and supremely wellcrafted study; persuasive and provocative in equal measure. He succeeds in drawing out these men of the Army of the Cumberland not just from the battlefields they fought on, but from the historiographical battlefield that they now find themselves in. It is an excellent example of the many ways that America's Civil War past is inflected in its present, and the epitome of historical analysis at its best.” Journal of the Civil War Era

Robert Hunt is a Professor in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University.

Hunt's [book] is a relatively trim and tidy study, but it certainly packs a punch. . . . It utilizes the personal memoirs of Army of the Cumberland veterans alongside their regimental histories ‘to evaluate how the authors included emancipation in their interpretation of the North's victory in the Civil War.’ The choice of the Army of the Cumberland as the lens through which to refract the multitude of memories and the meanings applied by and to them is an excellent one. . . . the Army of the Cumberland comprised such a broad mix of backgrounds in its soldiery, and operated in an area that received, at best, mixed messages about what the war was about, as to render the perspectives of its veterans especially valuable for historians. Hunt's is such a marvelous and supremely wellcrafted study; persuasive and provocative in equal measure. He succeeds in drawing out these men of the Army of the Cumberland not just from the battlefields they fought on, but from the historiographical battlefield that they now find themselves in. It is an excellent example of the many ways that America's Civil War past is inflected in its present, and the epitome of historical analysis at its best.” Journal of the Civil War Era

Robert Hunt is a Professor in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University.

Hunt's [book] is a relatively trim and tidy study, but it certainly packs a punch. . . . It utilizes the personal memoirs of Army of the Cumberland veterans alongside their regimental histories ‘to evaluate how the authors included emancipation in their interpretation of the North's victory in the Civil War.’ The choice of the Army of the Cumberland as the lens through which to refract the multitude of memories and the meanings applied by and to them is an excellent one. . . . the Army of the Cumberland comprised such a broad mix of backgrounds in its soldiery, and operated in an area that received, at best, mixed messages about what the war was about, as to render the perspectives of its veterans especially valuable for historians. Hunt's is such a marvelous and supremely wellcrafted study; persuasive and provocative in equal measure. He succeeds in drawing out these men of the Army of the Cumberland not just from the battlefields they fought on, but from the historiographical battlefield that they now find themselves in. It is an excellent example of the many ways that America's Civil War past is inflected in its present, and the epitome of historical analysis at its best.” Journal of the Civil War Era