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Emancipation and the Army of the Cumberland
User Guide
1) This
web archive features selected passages from six
memoir/regimental histories written by veterans of the
Army of the Cumberland. Each was written 20-45
years after the war, and each records the respective
author's attitudes towards the emancipation question.
These six were selected to represent the range of
attitudes towards the issue, and so provide a shorthand
form to measure the several dozen memoirs that comprise
the full number that were written.
2) From
these selected memoirs we have recorded relevant
passages and pages, and have summarized the rest.
The result, we hope, is an archive that can be used by
upper-level high school and college students, as well as
by any interested person. You can read the real
words of the real veterans, and so make up your own mind
about what they believed. Yet, you don't have to
comb through endless pages worth of material to come up
with two or three passages. For those who do wish
to read the whole of any work, we include the necessary
citations.
3) As
well, in our issues section, we guide you through the
major concerns that affected a soldier's and veteran's
attitudes towards emancipation both at the time of the
war and at the turn of the century. So, you can
read these sources and have some idea of how they fit in
a larger picture.
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